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Serial Ripley

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Datema, Jessica *
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Steinkoler, Manya
DOI：10.1057/s41282-026-00609-5delete
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Abstract

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This article formally exemplifies the doubling, fragmentation, and structural dissonance characteristic of our society and Ripley. The first section is a theoretical analysis of horror as engaging the void and an exposure to what Heidegger calls the Ri ss. Patricia Highsmith's Ripley is reborn as a monster for our era in Steven Zaillian's miniseries. Horror figures like Ripley show how Heidegger's idea that we go sit in a graveyard to be in touch with Dasein can backfire. Instead of experiencing finitude as an exposure to real abjection and death, the graveyard has become a metaverse and virtual backyard of groupthink, e.g., zombie trolling, undead social media profiles, artificial intelligence and cyber swindlers. The last section discusses patients who aspire to be Ripley as an ideal ego and turn their back on subjective lack and difference as a defense against castration and the real. We end the essay with some riffs, which are reflections on the contemporary clinic of narcissism and its imaginary fixture.
Keywords:
Anxiety
Adaptation
Horror
Highsmith
Zombie
Film

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PSYCHOANALYSIS CULTURE & SOCIETY
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0.4
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