Sublimation as Media: inter urinas et faeces nascimur

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2009

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Saper, Craig. “Sublimation as Media: Inter Urinas et Faeces Nascimur.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 31, no. 1 (2009). https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vol31/iss1/4

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In his exploration of the “influencing machine” experienced by schizophrenics, Victor Tausk describes something that very closely resembles the cinematic apparatus and also suggests virtual reality. His article “On the Origin of the ‘Influencing Machine’ in Schizophrenia,” published in 1919,3 represents one of the most important contributions to the psychoanalytic reception of the media. This machine, as described by schizophrenics, “consists of boxes, cranks, levers, wheels, buttons, wires, batteries, and the like.