Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism
06 Jul 2017
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism, Sociological essays
The following text was written right before May/11/2009 I was born in Soviet Russia and emigrated to US with the hope to live in and participate in Democracy. For me it’s especially painful to see when nominally democratic authority figures think in semantic constructions or express themselves in emotional code, which are both isomorphic to […]
Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism
11 May 2009
Posted by victor as Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism, Sociological essays
2nd Letter to the Readers I was born in Soviet Russia and emigrated to US with the hope to live in and participate in Democracy. For me it is especially painful to see when nominally democratic authority figures think in semantic constructions or express themselves in an emotional code, which are both isomorphic to totalitarian sensibility. […]
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- Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations
- Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
- Installation art-works analyzed
- Obituaries
- Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
- Photographic art and posters analyzed
- Poetry analyzed
- Psychology of religious belief
- Reviews of Films
- Sociological essays
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- Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations (41)
- A Shot about A Suspicious Spot – How Staining Your Identity Can Make You a Hero – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) (1)
- An Odd Ode to The Human Goddess Camille (Who, It Seems, Needs A Camel for A Husband) – From Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt/Le mepris” (1964) (1)
- “Wise Young Girl” (Julie Delpy) In “Detective” (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- Being Victimized By Socio-economic Anomie Under The Banner Of Profit-making Energetically Moved By Entrepreneurial Wind – From Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Il Grido/The Cry” (1957) (1)
- Blending Of Identities Refreshes A Monotonous Life – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970) (1)
- Buddha-like Head Of The Family: The Keeper Of The Hearth’s Fire Alive – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodeskaden” (1970) (1)
- Childishness And Cowardice Of A Macho Personality – Macho Sissies In Life, In Politics And In History From Tennessee Williams/Elia Kazan’s “Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) (1)
- Duchesse de Guermantes And Charles Swann Feel Themselves Before Death – From Volker Schlondorff’s “Un Amour de Swann/Swann In Love” (1984) (1)
- For Abel Rosenberg, Hero of Ingmar Bergman’s “Serpent’s Egg” (1977), To Insert A Billion Mark Banknote Into the Mouth of a Barman Is Just a Healthy Joke (1)
- Glauce (King Creon’s daughter) Is A Victim Of Medea’s Violent Magic – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Medea” (1969) (1)
- How A Sublime World of Metaphors And Symbols Crowns And By This Transubstantiates The Earthly Love – Volker Schlondorff’s “Swann in Love” (1984) (1)
- Imagination vs. Being (The Spiritually Pauperized Architect And His Doomed Son) – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970) (1)
- Jean-Luc Godard and Audrey Klebaner’s Psychological Etude of a Young Woman’s Encounter With Love. – From “In Praise of Love” (2001) (1)
- Laius, Jocasta (Silvana Mangano) And Their Son Oedipus – From “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- Little Johan Meets The Hotel Room Service Attendant (Hakan Jahnberg) – From Ingmar Bergman’s “The Silence” (1963) (1)
- Luis Bunuel’s “That Obscure Object of Desire” (1977) – The Eternal Duel-Duo Between Its Majesty-Money and Human Nature (1)
- Marcel-the Writer And Marcel-the Boy During WWI – From Raul Ruiz’s “Time Regained” (1999) (1)
- Maurice Pialat’s “Van Gogh” (1991) – Vincent and Marguerite’s Brief Eternity (1)
- Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow Up”, 1966 – Pure Sexual Desire As Infantile Sexuality, While Love Starts as An Existential Drive Towards Another Person (1)
- Petra and Karin – Their Creative Enterprise, their Love And Inequality – From “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” (1972) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- Preparation For War: Vicious (In All Too Human Way) Battle For Domination – From Ronald Neame’s “Tunes of Glory” (1960) (1)
- Retarded Boy Rokkuchan As A Demiurge Of Technological Civilization – From “Dodes’Kaden” (1970) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- Right-wingers Today and Judaist Clergy In Christ’s Times On The One Hand, And Liberal Democrats Today And Pontius Pilate In Christ’s Time , “The Messiah”, By Rossellini (1)
- Sugar-taste, Sugar-dream, Sugar-dreaming, Sugar-excitement, Sugar-prosperity, Sugar-destructiveness – From Dušan Makavejev’s “Sweet Movie” (1974) (1)
- Surrealist Imagery As The Film-director’s Expressive Tool – The Shot Is From “Chinese Roulette” (1976) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- The Art Of Meaningful Composition Of A Shot – From “Lili Marleen” (1981) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- The Body Of Truth And The Body Of Glamour – From “Hour of the Wolf” (1968) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
- The Film-director Is Challenging the Deceitful Narratives Of Historical Events – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) (1)
- The Internal Power To Resist Abusive Treatment Grows Together With The Very Experience Of Resistance From Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander” (1981) (1)
- The Knight Of Love – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodeskaden” (1970) – Is Betrayal Of Love A Spiritual Betrayal? (1)
- The Role Of “Bizarre” Visual Images As An Intellectual Stimulation Of The Film-viewers – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers” (2003) (1)
- The Use Of “Gaze Aside Without Verbalization” In Cinema – Examples From “Medea” (1969) And “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- Three Phases Of Human Relationship With Death – From “Time Regained” (1999) By Raul Ruiz (Film Based On Marcel Proust’s Novel) (1)
- Three Positions Towards Death (Of Those Who Personally Feell Distant From Death’s Touch) – From Maurice Pialat’s “The Mouth Agape/The Slack-Jawed Mug” (1974) (1)
- To Become Ontologically Authentic Personality (Complex Of Sublime Selfhood) Or To Share Life With Others – Jean-Luc Godard’s “Vivre sa vie/My Life To Live” (1962) (1)
- Trivial Sex As A Gift From Destiny – From Maurice Pialat “The Mouth Agape” (1974) (1)
- When Intense Idealistic Belief “Massively” Collapses – From “Salome’s Last Dance” (1988) By Ken Russell (1)
- When Life Is the Occupation with Technology And Financial Rivalry – From “Sisters, Or The Balance Of Happiness” (1979) By Margarethe Von Trotta (1)
- When People On Tops Of Social Hierarchy Stopped To Be Reliable/Respectable – From “The Discreet Charm Of Bourgeoisie” (1972) By Luis Bunuel (1)
- When Youthful Intelligent Vitality Becomes Incompatible With the Conditions of Spiritual and Physical Survival – Robert Bresson’s “Devil Probably” (1977) (1)
- Young People’s Psychological Condition according To Akira Kurosawa’s “Sanjuro” (1962) (1)
- Films (and stills from the films) analyzed (133)
- Akira Kurosawa (9)
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- Alain Tanner (2)
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- R.W. Fassbinder's Films With Gunther Kaufmann (2)
- Radu Gabrea (1)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (15)
- Raul Ruiz (1)
- Rene Clement (1)
- Robert Bresson (4)
- Roberto Rossellini (3)
- Ronald Neame (1)
- Stanley Kramer (1)
- Strong Males’ Four Basic Tasks (1)
- Sydney Lumet (1)
- Volker Schlondorff’ (2)
- Werner Herzog (3)
- Wim Wenders (2)
- Yasujiro Ozu (1)
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- Alain Resnais (1)
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- Bruno S. (1932 – 2010) (1)
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- Michael Jackson (1)
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- Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed (212)
- Alberto Giacometti (5)
- Albrecht Durer (2)
- Amedeo Modigliani (2)
- Andre Derain (1)
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- Arno Braker (1)
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- Caravaggio (1)
- Chaim Soutine (3)
- Claude Monet (1)
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- Dorothea Tanning (2)
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- Edouard Manet (5)
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- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (5)
- Fernando Botero (1)
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- Francisco Goya (2)
- Frantisek Janousek (1)
- George Grosz (7)
- Giorgio de Chirico (5)
- Giovanni Angelo del Maino’s (1470-1536) “Saint John The Evangelist” (1520-30) (1)
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- Gustav Courbet (1)
- Gustav Klimt (3)
- Hans Bellmer (2)
- Henri Rousseau (1)
- Henry Matisse (5)
- Henry Moore (2)
- Honore Daumier (1)
- Jacob Epstein (3)
- Jacques Louis David (1)
- James Enzor (2)
- Jean Dubuffet (1)
- Joan Miro (4)
- John Heartfield (1)
- Joseph Mankiewicz (1)
- Judith Peck (1)
- Jules Bastien-Lepage (1)
- Karl Hubbuch (1)
- Kathe Kollwitz (2)
- Kazimir Malevich (2)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1)
- Leonora Carrington (1)
- Lucas Cranach (2)
- Lucian Freud (1)
- Man Ray (4)
- Marcel Duchamp (3)
- Marcel Janco (2)
- Marino Marini (1)
- Mary Cassatt (1)
- Max Beckmann (9)
- Max Ernst (14)
- Oscar Dominguez (2)
- OsKar Kokoschka (2)
- Otto Dix (6)
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- paul klee (4)
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- Rene Magritte (6)
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- Salvador Dali (1)
- Sofonisba Anguissola (1)
- Thomas Hart Benton (3)
- Victor Brauner (4)
- Vincent Van Gogh (eight self-portraits) (1)
- Wifredo Lam (2)
- Willem de Kooning (1)
- William Aiken Walker (1)
- Wolfgang Paalen (2)
- Photographic art and posters analyzed (30)
- A Call Back to Pre-democratic America: (1)
- Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels As One Person (1)
- Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Photos of Goebbels (1)
- Disappointed in mortals… (1)
- Dora Maar (10)
- Germany, Pale Mother (1)
- Humanity of the Psychological Frankensteins (1)
- John Heartfield (1)
- Photo Of A Group Of Schoolboys With Ludwig Wittgenstein And Adolf Hitler In Their Early Adolescence Amongst Them (1)
- Playing Cards With the Young Boys (1)
- Propaganda Posters (2)
- Rag-picker in Paris, 1901 (1)
- The Gaze of a Righteous Murder (1)
- The Mother Of Child Psychoanalysis And A Prolific Author Melanie Klein As An Exemplary Master Of Empathy (1)
- The Psychology of Pet Owning (1)
- What Childhood Photos of Churchill and Hitler Can Teach Us? (1)
- Why Bishops Attend A Nazi Public Event? (1)
- Will Beauty Save the World? (1)
- Poetry analyzed (40)
- Alfred de Vigny (1)
- Allen Ginsberg (1)
- Ezra Pound (2)
- Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936) (1)
- Harold Pinter’s Poem “American Football” (A Reflection Upon The Gulf War)” (1)
- Henri Michaux (1)
- Jacques Prevert (1)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (17)
- Octavio Paz (2)
- Oscar Wilde (1)
- Pablo Neruda (1)
- Paul Celan (2)
- Paul Eluard (1)
- Paul Valery (1)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
- Rene Char (1)
- Robert Frost (1)
- Theodore Roethke (2)
- Wallace Stevens (1)
- Psychology of religious belief (19)
- Alfred de Vigny (1)
- Allen Ginsberg’s Poem “Everyday” (1)
- “The Messiah” (1975) by Roberto Rossellini (review) (1)
- “Through Glass Darkly” (1961) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “Winter Light” (1962) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “Winter Light” by Ingmar Bergman (1)
- Belief – Its Versatile Contents and its Psychological “Form” (1)
- Belief in God as a Psychological Defense (1)
- Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- Emil Nolde’s “Resurrection” – Nolde’s Interpretation of Christ’s Resurrection Contradicts The Ideas Of Early Christians (1)
- Giovanni Angelo del Maino’s (1470-1536) “Saint John The Evangelist” (1520-30) (1)
- Giovanni Battista Moroni’s (1520–1579 ) “A Gentleman in Adoration Before the Baptism of Christ” (1555–1560) (1)
- In Vain, With My Eyes As With Nail (1)
- Proud Sinners As Good Christians (1)
- Roberto Matta (1)
- The Magic Helpers (1)
- The Religious Sin of Pious Complacency (1)
- Why Catholic Bishops Attend A Nazi Public Event (1)
- Reviews of Films (150)
- "Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- "Einstein" (2008) by Liliana Cavani (1)
- "Nazarin" (1959) by Luis Bunuel (1)
- "Sanjuro" (1962), by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- "Time Regained" (TR) by Raoul Ruiz (1999) (1)
- ”Il Grido/The Cry” (1957) By Michelangelo Antonioni (1)
- “35 Shots of Rum” (2008) By Claire Denis (1)
- “A Flame in My Heart” (1987) By Alain Tanner (1)
- “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) by Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams (1)
- “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” (1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- “Alice in the Cities” (1974) By Wim Wenders (1)
- “And the Ship Sails On” (1983) By Federico Fellini (1)
- “Au Hazard Balthazar” (1966) And “Devil Probably” (1977) By Robert Bresson (1)
- “Autumn Sonata” (1978) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “Baxter, Vera Baxter” by Marguerite Duras (1977) (1)
- “Berlin Affair” (1985) by Liliana Cavani (2)
- “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1980) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- “Bless the Beast and Children” by Stanley Kramer (1971) (1)
- “Burmese Harp” (1957) by Kon Ichikawa (1)
- “Casanova” (1976) by Federico Fellini (1)
- “Chinese Roulette” (1976) by R.W. Fassbinder (1)
- “Clara Schumann” (2008), by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
- “Confessions of Police Captain to the District Attorney” (1971) by Damiano Damiani (1)
- “CONFORMIST” (1971) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
- “Contempt/Le mepris” (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “Cuentame Como Paso” (“Tell Me How it Happened”) by Miguel Angel Bernardeau (1)
- “Death in Venice” (1971) by Luchino Visconti (1)
- “Dersu Uzala” (1975) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “Despair/Journey Into Light” (1978) by Rainer-Werner Fassbinder (1)
- “Destroy, She Said” (1968) by Marguerite Duras (1)
- “Detective” (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “Diary of the Country Priest” (1951) By Robert Bresson (1)
- “Dodes’kaden” (1970) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “Elysium” by Neill Blomkamp (2013) (1)
- “Faithless” by Liv Ullmann (1)
- “Fear of Fear” (1975) by R.W. Fassbinder (2)
- “Film Socialisme” (2010) By Jean-Luc Godard (JLG) (1)
- “Fire Within” (1963) By Louis Malle (1)
- “First Name Carmen/Prenom Carmen” (1983) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “Foyle’s War” by Anthony Horowitz (1)
- “From The Life Of The Marionettes” By Ingmar Bergman (1980) (1)
- “Germany in autumn” By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- “Germany, Pale Mother” (1980) by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
- “Golden Age/L'Age d'Or ” (1930) By Luis Bunuel (1)
- “Goodbye Language/Adieu au langage ” (2014) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “Hidden Fortress” (1958) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “Hiroshima mon amour” (1957) By Alain Resnais (1)
- “Hour Of The Wolf” (1968) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “I Want To Go Home” (1989) by Alain Resnais (1)
- “Ich Bin die Andere” (“I am the Other Woman”) by Margarethe von Trotta (2006) (1)
- “Ikiru/To Live” by Akira Kurosawa (1952) (1)
- “In a Year of 13 Moons” (1978) By R.W. Fassbinder (1)
- “In the Electric Mist” (2010) by Bernard Tavernier (1)
- “Kind Hearted Woman” by David Sutherland (1)
- “La guerre est finie/The War Is Over” (1966) By Alain Resnais (1)
- “La Terra Trema/The Earth Is Trembling/The Earth Trembles/Will Tremble” (1948) By Luchino Visconti (1)
- “Lacombe Lucien” (1974), By Louis Malle (1)
- “Lancelot of the Lake” (1974) By Robert Bresson (1)
- “Last Year in Marienbad” (1960) By Alain Resnais (1)
- “L’Enfance Nue” (1968) By Maurice Pialat (1)
- “Le Petit Soldat/The Little Soldier” (1960–1963) By Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “Letter to America”, (1999) by Kira Muratova (1)
- “Life and Nothing But/La vie at rien d’autre” (1989) by Bertrand Tavernier (1)
- “Lili Marleen” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981) (1)
- “Lola” by Jacques Demy (1961) (1)
- “Lola” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981) (1)
- “Long Day’s Journey into the Night” (1962) By Sidney Lumet (1)
- “Love Unto Death” (1984) by Alain Resnais (1)
- “Madame Rosa” By Moshe Mizrahi (1)
- “Made in USA (1966) by Jean-Luc Godard (2)
- “Man Like Eva/Ein mann wie Eva” (1983) by Radu Gabrea (1)
- “Medea” (1969) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- “Melo” (1986) by Alain Resnais (1)
- “Milarepa” by Liliana Cavani (1974) (1)
- “Muriel, Or The Time Of Return” By Alain Resnais (1964) (1)
- “My life and Times with Antonin Artaud” (1993) by Gerard Mordillat (1)
- “Nathalie Granger” (1972) by Marguerite Duras (1)
- “Nazarin” (1959) by Luis Bunuel (1)
- “Nelly and Mr. Arnaud” (1995) by Claude Sautet (1)
- “Night and Day” (1991) by Chantal Akerman (1)
- “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- “Oh, Woe Is Me” by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “Our Lady of the Assassins” (2000) by Barbet Schroeder (1)
- “Our Music” by Jean-Luc Godard (2004) (1)
- “Peter Pan” (2003) by P.J. Hogan (1)
- “Pickpocket” (1959) by Robert Bresson (1)
- “Pigpen/Pigsty/La Porcile” (1969) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- “Salome’s Last Dance” (1988) by Ken Russell (1)
- “Sanjuro” (1962), by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “Sansho the Bailiff” (1954) by Kenji Mizoguchi (1)
- “Sisters or the Balance of Happiness” (1979) By Margarethe von Trotta (1)
- “Socrates” (1971) By Roberto Rossellini (1)
- “Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
- “Strongman Ferdinand” (1977) by Alexander Kluge (1)
- “Stroszek” (1977) By Werner Herzog (1)
- “Swan In Love” (1984) By Volker Schlöndorff' (1)
- “Sweet Movie” (1976) By Dusan Makavejev (1)
- “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (RWF) (1)
- “The Cannibals” by Liliana Cavani (1969) (1)
- “The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach” by Jean Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (1968) (1)
- “The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie” (1972) by Luis Bunuel (1)
- “The Dreamers” (2003) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
- “The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail” (1945) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “The Merchant of Four Seasons” (1971) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
- “The Messiah” (1975) by Roberto Rossellini (1)
- “The Mouth Agape/The Slack-Jawed Mug” (1974) by Maurice Pialat (1)
- “The Night of Iguana” (1964) by John Huston – based on Tennessee Williams’ play (1)
- “The Rise of Louis XIV” by Roberto Rossellini (1966) (1)
- “The Rite” (1969) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “The Salamander” (1971) by Alain Tanner (1)
- “The Serpent’s Egg”1976, by Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “The Sheltering Sky” (1990) by Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
- “The Shout” (1978) by Jerzy Skolimowski (1)
- “The Silence” by Ingmar Bergman (1963) (1)
- “The Skin” (“La Pelle” – 1981) by Liliana Cavani (1)
- “The Soft Skin” (1964) By Francois Truffaut (1)
- “The Testament of Orpheus” by Jean Cocteau (1959) (1)
- “The Touch” (1971) by Ingmar Bergman (2)
- “The Virgin’s Bed” (“Le lit de la vierge”), 1969, by Philip Garrel (1)
- “Theorem” (1968) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- “Through Glass Darkly” (1961) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “Tokyo Twilight”, 1957, by Yasujiro Ozu (2)
- “Trophy Wife” (“Potiche”), 2010, by Francois Ozon (1)
- “Tunes of Glory” by Ronald Neame (1)
- “Uranus” by Claude Berri (1)
- “Van Gogh” (1991) by Maurice Pialat (1)
- “Vivre Sa Vie/My Life to Live” (1962) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- “What are Clouds?” (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (2)
- “Whity” By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1970) (1)
- “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”(1966) By Mike Nichols (Based on the Play of Edward Albee) (1)
- “Winter Light” (1962) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
- “Yojimbo” (1961) and “Sanjuro” (1963) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “Yojimbo” (1961) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
- “You ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Alain Resnais (1)
- “Zabriskie Point”/ZP, (1970) By Michelangelo Antonioni (1)
- Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Me and You/Io e Te” (2)
- In Praise of Love/Éloge de l'amour (2001) By Jean-Luc Godard (1)
- Margarethe Von Trotta's “Hannah Arendt” (1)
- Review #2 of “What are Clouds?” (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
- Star Trek (1)
- The One Who Cried When He Watched James Bond Movie(s) (1)
- Sociological essays (152)
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- A Radical Change in the Nature of Modern Economy (1)
- About Gay-labeling and Perception of Personal Life In “Technical Terms” (1)
- Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels As One Person (1)
- Adult Victims of (Childish) Toys (1)
- American Rich As Personifications of Greatness of Our Nation (1)
- Americans Who Are “hypnotized” By Their Semi-prosperity Routine – Jobs, Careers, Hobbies, Holidays, Pills, Etc. And Habitually Don’t Look Outside (Or Look There Through Their Eyelids) (1)
- Anti-democratic Psychopathology Of The Need To Be Entertained (1)
- Artificially Induced Hunger for Currency (2)
- “Trump’s Anti-science Era Begins” (1)
- Barack Obama’s Psychological Complex? (1)
- Belief – Its Versatile Contents and its Psychological “Form” (1)
- Brief Notes on “Fascist”* Psycho-social Regression in Seemingly Normal People (1)
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- Genocidal Gene In Many Of The Neocons And Neoliberals Today Who Are Afraid That People Will Deprive Them Of Their Power and Wealth (1)
- Good News and New Goods For The One Percent Of American Population (1)
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- Humanity of the Psychological Frankensteins (1)
- Hypothetical Notes On – Idealistic Bubbles In Political Calculations As Part Of Human Psychological Makeup (1)
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- Identification Based On Difference and Margarethe Von Trotta's Search For a Joint-gender Perspective (1)
- Identification Of Viewers With Star/Character In Commercial Movies As An Example Of Totalitarian Symbiotic Togetherness (1)
- Ideology in SRussia (Soviet Russia) and Bushmerica (1)
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- Notes On The Toughers And The Gentlers – Two Halves Of The Majority of American Population In The 21st Century (1)
- Pedagogy of Cultural Illiteracy (1)
- People Who Exist Too Heavily … Drowned In Everyday Existence (1)
- Perverted Alliance between Truth and Salary (1)
- Plutarch’s Nightingale – An Etude Including Exercise In Lyrical Dystopia (1)
- Politicians and Financial Entrepreneurs with Autistic Features (1)
- Poorple and Wealthyple (1)
- Populism as a Smiling Mask of Anti-humanism (1)
- Primal Scenes (Three Demons of Theatricality) (1)
- Private Wealth’s Globally Expanded Predatoriness (1)
- Prosperity Without Consumerism and Education Without Career Calculation (1)
- Prozac Liberalism in U.S. (1)
- Psychological Roots of Political and Financial Misbehvior (1)
- Psychology of Political, Military and Economic Blunders (1)
- Psychopaths Aren’t So Clever After All (1)
- Rich Conquerors and Their (Poor) Servants and Bodyguards (1)
- Rottweilers of Lord Bankfein (1)
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- Scientific Research Becomes Incompatible With The Predatory Mind Of Conservatism And Neo-Conservatism (1)
- Setting Discord Between Groups and Populations (1)
- Shift from “Communism” to “Democracy” in Russia (1)
- Sissy Heroism or the Logic of an Abused Child (1)
- Socio-political Dreams In Relation To Socio-political Realities (The Russian Communist Future And Totalitarian Present, German Aryan Superiority and The Third Reich,…) (1)
- Socio-Psychological Essence of the Emotion of Hate (1)
- Some Psychological Reasons For GOP’s Victory In Midterm Congressional Elections (1)
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- The Builders Of American Dystopia – Political Apparatchiks Of Neo-Conservative Cause (1)
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- The Political Dance Of A “One-sided Compromise” With A Despotic Money-power – President Obama Faces Future Of A Possible Impeachment (1)
- The Poor People’s Paradise, the Rich’s Hell – Relaxed Existence VS. Over-calculation (1)
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- There are Two Types of People (1)
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- 1. Obama, Bush and the 'Armoured Self'
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Recent Entries
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- Francis Picabia, “Venus and Adonis” – The Frightening and Horrifying Aspect of a Typical - Narcissistically Megalomaniacal Eroticism
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- Francis Picabia’s “Idyll” (1925) – The Artist As A Parodist Of The Very Landscape Of Human Portraits: Building Compatibility Of Opposites: Settling And Settlement, Civilization And Nature
- When People On The Top Of The Social Hierarchy Stopped To Be Reliable And Respectable - From “The Discreet Charm Of Bourgeoisie” (1972) By Luis Bunuel
- Plutarch’s Nightingale – An Etude Including Exercise In Lyrical Dystopia
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