...express it directly. If symptoms are failed repressions, representations are symptoms that visualise even as they conceal what is too dangerous to articulate...but too fascinating to repress successfully. They repress by localising death away from the self, at the body of a beautiful woman, at the same time...

...express it directly. If symptoms are failed repressions, representations are symptoms that visualise even as they conceal what is too dangerous to articulate...but too fascinating to repress successfully. They repress by localising death away from the self, at the body of a beautiful woman, at the same time...

...women—the site of alterity and therefore of distance from the self—as "symptoms that visualize even as they conceal what is too dangerous to articulate...openly but too fascinating to repress successfully." 23 Along the lines of romanticism and especially of melodrama, death becomes the culmination of the...

...the dangerous knowledge as something beautiful, fascinating and ultimately reassuring. Visualizing even as they conceal what is too dangerous to articulate...ineluctably return the desire for and the knowledge of finitude and dissolution, upon and against which all individual and cultural systems of coherence and...

...(1992), pp. 145-58 (146): 'representations are symptoms that visualise even as they conceal that which is too dangerous to articulate openly, but too fascinating to repress successfully... At the same time these representations let the repressed return, albeit in a disguised manner.' understood...