The “generator” in Successive Slidings of Pleasure is the perfect female beauty of the seventies, associated to that of a witch. In his works, Robbe-Grillet reproduces this universe by restituting to this fetishism its magic appearance throughout kitsch (representing anti-nature) and pornography in the “dream place” called cinema. Jean Baudrillard), that may transform every object into an object of desire, with the consequence that even the human body enters as a “fetish” into sexual relationship. Thus in modern societies you can find a sliding eroticism of fetishism, now in the Freudian sense of the term (cf. Despite its rationality, modern civilization is mainly based on an irrational principle: the commodity fetishism (Marx). You might say that the term ‘dream place’ does not refer to any particular place and the way to get to it is to get nowhere.” ( Dreamtime, 1987 German original: 1978).

In the same sense, we propose here a comparative study of our corpus, based on the idea of a particular archaic universe of magical practice, shamanism and witchcraft as it is described by Hans Peter Duerr : “The ‘dream place’ is everywhere and nowhere, just like the ‘dreamtime’ is always and never.

Fetishish, commodity fetishism, cinema, witchcraft, kitsch, eroticism, pornography, sterility, anti-nature AbstractĪccording to Alain Robbe-Grillet, his movie Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) has been directly influenced by the essay Satanism and Witchcraft (French original: 1862) of the romantic historian Jules Michelet and also by the reading of this book by Roland Barthes in the sense of a new criticism.

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