“ In camera (Latin: “in a chamber”) is a legal term meaning “in private”. It is also sometimes termed in chambers or in curia.
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attitudes passionnelles.
“ Freud was the disoriented witness of the immensity of hysteria in camera and the manufacturing of images. His disorientation was not without bearing on the beginnings of psychoanalysis.
Georges Didi-Huberman
“ I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
“ What still remains with us is the series of images of the Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. It contains everything: poses, attacks, cries, “attitudes pasionnelles”, “crucifixions”, “ecstasy”, and all the postures of delirium. If everything seems to be in these images, it is because photography was in the ideal position to crystallize the link between the fantasy of hysteria and the fantasy of knowledge.
Georges Didi-Huberman
“ Since ancient times women considered to be suffering from hysteria would sometimes undergo “pelvic massage” — manual stimulation of the anterior wall of the vagina by the doctor until the patient experienced “hysterical paroxysm”.
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“ Sing now of the tribe of women, sweet-voiced Olympian Muses, / daughters of aigis-bearing Zeus: those women who were the noblest, / and had sex with gods.
Hesiod, Eoiai
- @sugarwife: "the word 'cabaret' is derived from the Latin 'camera', meaning a small room"
- @yrmomschesthair: I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
