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Now showing — Obsessive · 5 works

  • Pale Fire Books · 1960s

    A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • Vertigo Film · 1950s

    A detective's obsession with a woman who may not exist. Hitchcock's most personal and disturbing film.

    PowerIdentityAfter-hours
  • My Struggle Books · 2000s

    Six volumes of radical autobiographical fiction. The everyday rendered with obsessive, totemic detail.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Obsessions and Religious Practices is a 1907 essay or critical text by Sigmund Freud, linked to a wider international field and German. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.

    RitualModernityResistance
  • A concept album of obsession, orchestral sweep, and spoken-word seduction. French pop at its most literary and cinematic.

    After-hoursLonging
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  • Histoire de Melody Nelson Music
  • Obsessive Music
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  • Obsessions and Religious Practices Essays
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  • Pale Fire Books
  • Vertigo Film