In Part II, queer synchronicity deepens into eros and inflation, as Vertigo stages the perilous collapse between ideal self-image and the abyss.
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On Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Jungian Alchemy
Through nigredo, albedo, and rubedo, Devon Hansen traces Scottie’s failed alchemical opus—where the death of ideal self-images becomes the necessary mortification individuation demands. The second chapter of the Vertigo series explores transformation without resolution, and why wholeness requires mourning the fantasies of perfection we can never surrender.
On Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Introduction
My essay is an examination of Vertigo and a personal account of the unexpected and synchronistic involvement it has had in my life, particularly with regards to my queerness as a trans person and the influence of Jungian ideas on my transition.
Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou
Reminiscent of the work William Blake, Max Beckmann, and Hieronymus Bosch—to say nothing of the latter’s medieval predecessors, Antoniou’s images find their singularity in the exploration of the imaginal encounter, the sacred drama.