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In “Memory of a Square (perceived from an interior),” the apparent thematic continuity between
the two screens does imply neither linearity/continuity nor circularity. Thus, its temporality cannot
be simply claimed to be linear or circular. The temporal topology revealed in this work is moebial
since it constantly blends imaginary and real space, fantasy and reality, interiority and exteriority
through its course. Thus, there is no linear progression or regression, but a continuing moebial twist
of inside and outside is the case in this work.
(Figure: 1)
While viewing “Memory of a Square (perceived from an interior),” in one moment, we have a
glimpse of the women in the interiors anxiously waiting, and simultaneously on one screen, of a man
being arr sted among the crowd of protestors surrounding the square on the other screen. (Figure:
1) Here, one might conclude that the husband is one of the many who are being arrested in various
protests that took place in the history of the square. This is one of the many interpretations possible,
it may or may not be the case. However, what this moment reveals is that this family microcosm
isolated from the outside is neither a secure place nor a system enclosed within, as the memory of
the square always leaks into the interiors. In parallel, in order to imagine any historical moment or
social, political events happened in the square, one always has to bring individual stories to the fore.
Keywords: Memory, Retroaction, Imaginary, Domestic, Public
Defne TÜZÜN
Kadir Has University, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema
defne.tuzun@khas.edu.tr
Notes
1
Gülsün Karamustafa, Memory of a Square (perceived from an interior) (2005), video.
2
Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (London: New York:
Routledge, 1997), 58.
3
Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1956‐60,
ed. Jacques‐Alain Miller, trans. Dennis Porter (London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992), 139, 71.
4
Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, 58‐9.
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