Meshes of the Afternoon<\/i><\/b> is a perfect application of Jacques Lacan\u2019s <\/b><\/p>\n
mirror stage. At the end of the movie, Deren uses a knife to stab\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
the man, but the mirror breaks. Therefore, we can know that the <\/b><\/p>\n
man is Deren\u2019s reflection in the mirror. The woman cannot catch up <\/b><\/p>\n
with the mirror-faced man, which means she cannot see herself in the <\/b><\/p>\n
mirror. Why Deren can\u2019t catch up with the mirror-faced man? I believe <\/b><\/p>\n
that Deren wants to show that under the patriarchal society, women <\/b><\/p>\n
cannot acquire subjectivity, which like at first babies can’t identify <\/b><\/p>\n
themselves when they are not placed in front of a mirror. I believe <\/b><\/p>\n
that breaking the mirror has two layers of meaning. First, the <\/b><\/p>\n
woman wants to struggle against a patriarchal society. Second, she <\/b><\/p>\n
breaks the mirror and dies. I think Deren wants to convey that it is <\/b><\/p>\n
futile to resist.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Author’s Note:<\/p>\n
Hmmm… i’m not sure, just a try \u263a\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Meshes of the Afternoon is a perfect application of Jacques Lacan\u2019s mirror stage. At the end of the movie, Deren uses a knife to stab\u00a0 the man, but the mirror breaks. Therefore, we can know that the man is Deren\u2019s reflection in the mirror. The woman cannot catch up with the mirror-faced man, which means she cannot see herself in the mirror. Why Deren can\u2019t catch up with the mirror-faced man? I believe that Deren wants to show that under the patriarchal society, women cannot acquire subjectivity, which like at first babies can’t identify themselves when they are not placed in front of a mirror. I believe that breaking the mirror has two layers of meaning. First, the woman wants to struggle against a patriarchal society. Second, she breaks the mirror and dies. I think Deren wants to convey that it is futile to resist. \u00a0 Author’s Note: Hmmm… i’m not sure, just a try \u263a\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,42],"tags":[11,15,14,16],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","category-9","category-psychology","tag-feminism","tag-jacques-lacan","tag-meshes-of-the-afternoon-maya-deren-1943","tag-mirror-stage"],"views":21,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtheme.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}