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A Stake Through the Heart: Bram Stoker's Dracula (Chapters 5-18) (Patreon)

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2022-10-21 18:47:51
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“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.”

Tonight we continue our quest through Bram Stoker's nightmare. 

Topics of discussion include: psychopathy, blood transfusions, objective vs subjective time, somnambulism, stakes through the heart, and much more.

Timestamps:

  • 0:00 cliffhangers & dramatic irony
  • 3:20 a formula for suspenseful literature
  • 4:50 plot vs character-driven narratives
  • 7:30 Aristotle’s delineation of narrative
  • 9:50 objective vs subjective time
  • 13:00 why Dracula feels like a nightmare
  • 13:57 the juxtaposition of secrets
  • 15:30 Lucy’s three suitors
  • 16:51 the New Woman & age of disease
  • 18:00 are men really going to save us?
  • 23:10 Mina in stormy Whitby
  • 25:00 on telepathic communication
  • 26:05 Dr Seward & zoophagous Renfield
  • 27:40 predictors of sociopathy
  • 28:30 sociopaths vs psychopaths
  • 31:00 hidden suffering of the psychopath
  • 33:00 the psychopath & the narcissist
  • 35:00 where do we find psychopaths?
  • 37:30 Seward’s view of Renfield
  • 41:20 Lucy’s sleepwalking
  • 43:10 Freud on somnambulism
  • 44:10 auras, vitalism & the life-force
  • 46:17 from Varna to Whitby
  • 48:00 Mina on the New Woman
  • 49:30 sleepwalking & the vampire bite
  • 50:10 the symbolism of chivalry
  • 52:00 Dracula bends over Lucy
  • 53:00 the ravings of the sick
  • 54:47 meeting Van Helsing
  • 55:40 on malign astral influences
  • 56:30 sexualised blood transfusions
  • 1:01:00 science, superstition & chaos
  • 1:02:43 the significance of garlic
  • 1:04:00 the degeneration of Lucy
  • 1:04:50 is death beautiful?
  • 1:05:00 on near death experiences
  • 1:07:50 how to kill a vampire
  • 1:10:00 origins of the stake through the heart
  • 1:12:00 vampirism & suicide
  • 1:13:40 the staking scene
  • 1:14:50 the sexualisation of death

Questions to Consider:

1) What frightened Stoker's readers? And what frightens us?

2) What questions does Dracula invite us to explore?

3) Where do you think this novel fits in the literary canon?

Sleep tight, everybody...

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Joseph Matthews

This has been a rich area of thought and discussion. The consumption of animal products is widely accepted by human societies. This learned acceptance has limits. People often accept eating beef but might shun rat or dog flesh. Eating flies is grotesque but chicken nuggets is often well accepted. It will be interesting how we navigate this in the future. The production of nutrients from plant sources is certainly more cost effective, easier and unencumbered by concerns cruelty. We no loner read by whale oil lamps. This will likely evolve but how it will settle is not predictable.

Joseph Matthews

The discussion of the psychology of professions was rich. Earlier in my career I participated enthusiastically in the medical school admission (selection) process as well as the selection process for surgical trainees. What does society want for a physician or surgeon? Honest intelligent, knowledgeable, skilled, analytical, cautions, wise, cleaver, dependable, kind, tenacious, adaptable, inquisitive, decisive.....and the list goes on. It surprised me not that surgeons might be over represented in psychopaths. If a practitioner is very analytical and cautious, decisive and timely responses will suffer. We certainly do not want the reciprocal of "often wrong but never in doubt" This is a great discussion of how the individual functions within society.