Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality ― Lacan, Feminisms, and Queer Theory

Although Hitchcock's films present multiple forms of sexual identification and desire, these have most often been read in terms of male heterosexuality. Samuels (English, George Washington U.) uses Jacques Lacan's theory of ethics, recent theories of feminine subjectivity and bisexuality, and Freud's notion of a fundamental ground of bisexuality for every subject to investigate the role of unconscious bisexual desire in Hitchcock's work, and the ways in which bisexuality is reflected in the textual elements of nine of the director's films. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Robert Samuels is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud, and he has worked as a psychoanalyst.