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LOCATION:Room 005, 48/49 Old Elvet, Durham 
SUMMARY:Angela Woods (Durham, Centre for Medical Humanities) - Structures 
 of depressive Experience in Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Melancholia 
DESCRIPTION:Weekly Research Seminar This seminar was held in room 005,&nbs
 p;48/49 Old Elvet, Durham.  Refreshments were served from 11am w
 ith the talk commencing  at 11.30am. Title: Structures of depres
 sive Experience in Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Melancholia Abstract: L
 ars von Trier is variously regarded as one of Europe's most provocative an
 d most brilliant filmmakers. This paper offers a close comparative reading
  of his two most recent films, Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011). A
 lthough von Trier has been open in discussing the films' relationship to h
 is own experiences of severe depression, I do not propose to read either t
 ext as psychobiography or catharsis, or to assess their fidelity to standa
 rd clinical accounts of psychic suffering. Instead, drawing on the work of
  contemporary phenomenological and psychoanalytic philosophers, I will dis
 cuss the exploration of grief, self-loathing, anxiety, erotic agitation, l
 oss, extreme lethargy, despair and cruelty in Antichrist and Melancholia, 
 arguing that that these films together constitute a highly sophisticated s
 tudy in the lived experience of depression.
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