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a deep syntax of latent contents or in the transformational system<br />

that ends up with, on the face of it, the manifest content. Relational,<br />

emotive, sexual significations-I would prefer to say intensities-are<br />

constantly transported there by heterogeneous "traits of the matter of<br />

expression" (to borrow a formula that Christian Metz himself<br />

borrowed from Hjelmslev) . The codes intertwine without one ever<br />

succeeding in dominating the others; one passes, in a continual back<br />

and forth, from perceptive codes to denotative, musical, connotative,<br />

rhetorical, technological, economic, sociological codes, etc ...<br />

Commercial cinema is nothing else but a simple, inexpensive drug.<br />

Its unconscious action is profound. More perhaps than that of<br />

psychoanalysis. First of all at the level of the session. Cinematographic<br />

performance affects subjectivity. It affects the personological<br />

individuation of enunciation and develops a very particular mode of<br />

conscience. Without the support of the other's existence, subjectivation<br />

tends to become hallucinatory; it no longer concentrates on one<br />

subject, but explodes on a multiplicity of poles even when it fixes<br />

itself on one character. Strictly speaking, it doesn't even concern a<br />

subject of enunciation in the usual sense-what is emitted by these<br />

poles is not simply a discourse, but intensities of all kinds, constellations<br />

of features of faciality, crystallizations of affects ... It reaches the<br />

point where one no longer knows who is speaking or who is who.<br />

The roles are much better defined in psychoanalysis, and the<br />

subjective transitivity much better controlled. In fact, one doesn't<br />

stop using the discourse of the analyst: one says what one thinks<br />

someone would like to hear, one alienates oneself by wanting to be<br />

worthy of the listener. In cinema, one no longer speaks; it speaks in<br />

one's place: the cinematographic industry uses the kind of speech it<br />

imagines one wants to hear.5<br />

A machine treats you like a machine, and the essential thing is<br />

not what it says, but the sort of vertigo of abolition that the fact of

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