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" No more hysteria, no more projective paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity of everything which touches, invests and penetrates without resistance,... "
Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic
by Linda Badley - 1995 - 199 pages
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Postmodern Culture

Hal Foster - Philosophy - 1985 - 178 pages
...more project! ve paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...protection, not even his own body, to protect him anymore. 132 The schizo is bereft of every scene, open to everything in spite of himself, living in the greatest...
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Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Annette Kuhn - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...more projective paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...everything which touches, invests and penetrates without resistance.'43 The subject has 'no halo of private protection, not even his own body, to protect him...
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Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip ...

Judith Kerman - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 344 pages
...has called an "ecstasy of communication," invoking a defenseless state "proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...protection, not even his own body, to protect him anymore."2 And so is the spectator put on edge and made more vulnerable to suggestion, more exposed...
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction

Scott Bukatman - Computers - 1993 - 428 pages
...more projective paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...everything which touches, invests and penetrates without resistance.169 The subject has "no halo of private protection, not even his own body, to protect him...
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Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History

John Docker - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 348 pages
...exterior world of television and information. We succumb to a state of terror proper to the schizophrenic, of too great a proximity of everything, the 'unclean...touches, invests and penetrates without resistance'. The curiously erotic language of Baudrillard 's essay here, of contact that is obscene yet lunar cold,...
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Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film

J. P. Telotte - Performing Arts - 1995 - 236 pages
...perhaps even of a distinct identity, as the individual finds he must live, as Baudrillard puts it, "with no halo of private protection, not even his own body, to protect him anymore" ("Ecstasy" 132). Moreover, we need to read this notion of resistance in light of the science fiction...
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Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer

Richard Tithecott - Social Science - 1997 - 207 pages
...individuals who experience what Baudrillard suggests is the "state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...protection, not even his own body, to protect him anymore . . . bereft of every scene, open to everything in spite of himself, living in the greatest confusion"...
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Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America

Timothy Melley - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
...more projective paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...halo of private protection, not even his own body . . . The schizo is bereft of every scene, open to everything in spite of himself, living in the greatest...
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The Horror Reader

Ken Gelder - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 444 pages
...more projective paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...protection, not even his own body, to protect him anymore. . . . The schizo is bereft of every scene, open to everything in spite ol himself, living in the greatest...
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This Mad "instead": Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction

Arthur Michael Saltzman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 260 pages
...Communication," Baudrillard describes his pathology as "this state of terror proper to the schizophrenic: too great a proximity of everything, the unclean promiscuity...without resistance, with no halo of private protection" (132). 9. A related malady afflicts James, the mathematician's assistant in DeLillo's play The Engineer...
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