Assignment: Take one particular point or observation from either of the assigned readings for the meeting you missed (the blog post and the pages from Freud) and discuss their relevance to a particular scene in (or recurrent aspect of) Sturgis' film Sulliivan's Travels.
I felt throughout the film there were re-occurring instances of bleeding and surging, but sometimes I felt I couldn't quite put my figure on whether it was exactly that or not. Sullivan and the woman go back and forth many times where I could almost just sense it but it wasn't quite "bleeding" or "surging." I found two instances where I felt the most confident on finding those terms. One is a conversation where Sullivan and the women are in the car, when they are newly friends and he references "Sullivan" that they have his car and she believes he is talking about a famous random director who is really Sullivan but is unknowingly sitting next to him, which is an example of "bleeding" except for she finds out not in that scene that he is indeed Sullivan ( finds out two scenes later in jail.
Yeah, the difference can be tricky. What's most important, though, is that you're recognizing the encounter with one's own position in a dimension one isn't ready for. (That phenomenon is central to "pure comedy," and surging and bleeding are really just its two key variations.)
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