Under the Eye of Great Other. Law and Film

Journal Title: Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem - Year 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1

Abstract

This article is aim to show structural similarities between legal discourse and film, and cinematographic works that can be useful for teaching law. For this purpose lacanian psychoanalysis is used (in the version presented by Slavoj Žižek) and movies Triumph of Will, Battleship Potemkin, Bezmiar sprawiedliwości, Twelve Angry Men and Dead Poets Society. Based on the three-level concept of meaning (Imaginary, Symbolic and Real levels), the author shows that the center point of legal discourse and film is the Great Other, which included symbolic order as a whole. Motion picture as well as the law require from their subjects to adopt of the position of the entity to which the Great Other directs his message. Both discourses have the opportunity to abuse that position.

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Michał Stambulski

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Michał Stambulski (2014). Under the Eye of Great Other. Law and Film. Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem, 6(1), 299-311. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-62491