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The Devil Notebooks The Devil Notebooks L A U R E N C E A . R I C K E L S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS MINNEAPOLIS • LONDON Frontispiece:Devil Father Mine,2005.Photograph by Nancy Barton. Copyright 2008 by the Regents ofthe University ofMinnesota All rights reserved.No part ofthis publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior written permission ofthe publisher. Published by the University ofMinnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South,Suite 290 Minneapolis,MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rickels,Laurence A. The devil notebooks / Laurence A.Rickels. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8166-5051-4 (hc :alk.paper) — ISBN978-0-8166-5052-1 (pb : alk.paper) 1. Devil. 2. Devil—Psychology. 3. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. BF1548.R53 2008 133.4'22—dc22 2008006868 Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper The University ofMinnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF • ix DEVIL FATHER NOTEBOOK ONE • 3 Intro/Limbo or Satan’s School for Girls—Race with the Devil— Murder in Isla Vista, Santana, and Santee—Dare Devil Aleister Crowley—The Devil Rides Out NOTEBOOK TWO • 19 The Devil in Freud or the Father’s Same Body—The Other Sideand Communications from the Memoirs ofSatan NOTEBOOK THREE • 34 More ofthe Same Body—Wolfman and Fraternities ofSatan NOTEBOOK FOUR • 45 Metropolis,California—The Satanic Cult ofthe Built Body NOTEBOOK FIVE • 60 Prints of Darkness in Freud, Goethe, Flusser, and Reisner—First Circle ofthe Seven Deadly Sins NOTEBOOK SIX • 70 Second Circle ofSevenand the Deadly Sins—The Evil Within NOTEBOOK SEVEN • 86 Freud’s Dying Days and The Wild Ass’s Skin—Sweet Nothing or Needful Things NOTEBOOK EIGHT • 99 Angel Heartin the Right Place—DemonsProjections—Falling Angel Takes Heart—Demonic Phallus—Walpurgis Night NOTEBOOK NINE • 112 Sounds ofSatan—The Wagner before the Horse—Banality or Evil NOTEBOOK TEN • 131 Satan and Golem,Inc.—Childhood’s EndandBeyond the Pleasure Principleon Purpose—What’s the Sexual Difference between Techno Survival and Mass Suicide? NOTEBOOK ELEVEN • 154 Demonic Bodies ofWork between Satan:His Psychotherapy and Cure andEvent Horizon NOTEBOOK TWELVE • 163 Revelations of Evolution in Memnoch the Devil—Inferno—Keep Away from Apeling—Dancing in the Light NOTEBOOK THIRTEEN • 176 Possession by Demons or the Dead in The Amityville Horror,Witch- board,andThe Exorcist NOTEBOOK FOURTEEN • 194 The Exorcism ofAnneliese MichelandThe Possession ofJoel Delaney NOTEBOOK FIFTEEN • 201 “The Call ofCthuluh”or The Craft ofDisgust NOTEBOOK SIXTEEN • 211 My Bad or The Damned—Spiritualism—To the Devil a Daughter andThe Sentinel—My Evil MINE NOTEBOOK SEVENTEEN • 233 Paradise Lost—Hearst Castle—The Black Cat—The Coming Race— Peter Schlemiel NOTEBOOK EIGHTEEN • 250 “The Mines ofFalun” NOTEBOOK NINETEEN • 258 Swedish Tourism and German Romanticism NOTEBOOK TWENTY • 276 The Devil’s ElixirsandThe Monk DEVIL FATHER MINE NOTEBOOK TWENTY-ONE • 293 Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Part II—From Ferenczi to Derrida,or Faith without Redemption NOTEBOOK TWENTY-TWO • 310 The Witch Metapsychology in Freud,My Mother: Demonology,and Anton LaVey NOTEBOOK TWENTY-THREE • 331 Freud and the Devil,or Appetite Comes with Eating NOTEBOOK TWENTY-FOUR • 343 The Devil and His Grandmother,or Rear View Mirrors NOTEBOOK TWENTY-FIVE • 353 Michelle Remembers,or Rhyme Word Death NOTEBOOK TWENTY-SIX • 360 Hitting Bottom in The Club Dumas,The Omen,and “Reading the Lack ofthe Body” REFERENCES • 369 FILMOGRAPHY • 377 This page intentionally left blank PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF I once led a field trip through the Falun mines with students of the Konsthögskolan at Umeå Universitet following our compact seminar on a famous incident that transmitted a certain mining complex oftechno unmourning to and through German Romanticism first,then psycho- analysis.Here’s looking back with you,kids.It was right after our Last Supper in Falun,in some provincial restaurant,after it became evident that our immediate environs doubled on weekends,after dinner,as disco for teenagers,that we visited the ultimate level of our Falun mine exca- vations.What was mine was now yours:the recent past,which is always the most primal,repressed,and catastrophic past,had flashed back before your eyes.This was the disco setting of your own adolescent grouping, groping,responding.And you cruised the dance floor with some sense of what it means to have survived yourself, to be a ghost at a familiar scene.It was time to remember the mass killer of Falun,the adolescent army boy, who had no doubt been a regular visitor to those disco ex- changes in which teen volatility, confusion, idealism must be metabo- lized, doubled, and contained. He chose not to be a ghost visiting the scene of his time past,but to visit upon the survivors of those he mur- dered scenes ofcrime and haunting. Several years later I started wrapping my work ofcompilation (and resistance) dedicated to the Devil around the kernel of this excavation project (which enjoyed a shelf life prior to this Devil frame).Now that my infernal framework is a wrap,I remember with gratitude my Devil course clients,both the undergraduate students at University ofCalifor- nia,Santa Barbara,and Universität zu Köln and the graduate students at ix
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