"Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ as paradigm Vertigo’s ‘perfect fit’ allows a retro-fitting of the L-scheme to correspond to the boundary language diagram (BoLaGram). Just as prying open the L-scheme of ‘The Sandman’ led to an articulation of the two themes of contractual exchange and optics, Vertigo’s four elements ‘open up’ the relationships that pivot around the jewel. The jewel was a fake copied from a portrait of the deceased Hispanic beauty, Carlotta Valdez. Scotty is lured into Elster’s murder plot, which involves hiring Judy to impersonate his wife and appear to be possessed by Carlotta’s spirit. Scotty thinks he has rescued her from madness, but she lures him to a Colonial monastery, where Elster has concealed himself and his real wife in a tower. Just as Judy climbs to the top and hides, Scotty ‘witnesses’ the fall of the real wife and believes she has committed suicide on account of her madness. Recovering from the trauma, he finds a shop girl who resembles Madeleine and pursues her, persuading her to be remade in the likeness of Madeleine. In her apartment he discovers the jewel, the Deleuzian ‘demark’, which is Real precisely because it is a fake, just as Judy is Real precisely because SHE is fake! The revised L-scheme shows how the contractual relationship between Scotty and Elster (the symbolic relationship), afforded a Ø-projection of Madeleine (who ‘really was’ Judy) that created an anamorphic line of action in the fi lm. Jewels, cigarette lighters, rings, keys and other small precious objects work well as ‘object-causes of desire’ because their value is ‘inestimable’ and beyond their function and materiality."
...wow...
I am going to have to watch Vertigo again.
More:
http://art3idea.psu.edu/locus/diagrams/L-Scheme_Lacan.pdf
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