Unconscious/Television
(2025)
by Lucas Ferraço Nassif
****Second Edition Coming October 2025****
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Authored by Lucas Ferraço Nassif
Editing by 0nty
Art & Design by Palais Sinclaire
Layout & Typography by Polymnia Tsinti
Metadata:
Cat#: BECOMING008
Dimensions: A5
Binding: Perfect Bound
Pages: 218 pages
ISBN: 978-9925-8156-2-3 (Print)
Language: English
Edition: Second
Released: October 2025
To be cited as:Nassif, L. F. (2025) Unconscious/Television. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8156-2-3.
About:
This book stems from the author’s discontents with Lacanian Psychoanalysis, by drawing from psychoanalysts like Félix Guattari and Sándor Ferenczi, as well as authors like Viveiro DeCastro, and Thomas Lamarre, to whom the book is dedicated.
The book is dedicated as such because the author is responding to certain groundwork which is laid by Lamarre, who authored two books on Anime, and who inspired Lucas to break out of Western Psychoanalytical discourse by studying Japanese Animated Television. Television is different to Cinema, because it is in-the-middle of everything, it has a body, it emits warmth: the author reminds us of the image of Godard hugging the television. Like in Lamarre’s work, Unconscious/Television holds high value in the “limited-animation” found in Animé which refers to multiplanar compositions, this technique of combining still and moving images. The author takes a special interest in the “in-between” of the layers when elaborating on concepts like the Unconscious, the Lamella, and the Thalassa.
The book is experimental in form, as the six-texts that is it composed of have been cut-up and re-ordered, and then split once again into four parts with three dynamic intersections. We have folded the form of the book back in on the text itself, to create a demonic fusion, which, as we see in Devilman CryBaby, can become weapons against the Symbolic.
“Les inconscients ne sont pas structurés comme un langage, ils sont comme des garçons.”
“The Unconscious is not structured as a language, it is structured like... the boys.”
Peer Reviews:
Christine Greiner:
Chair of the Department of Art
São Paolo Pontifical Catholic University
In the first pages, Nassif quotes Isabel Ghirardi: “language is secretion”. I immediately thought about the butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi, who used to say: “expression is secretion”. Let’s keep this in mind during our reading. This will be a powerful strategy to make words, feelings and images flow through our bodies reinventing ourselves.”
Bernd Herzogenrath:
Professor at Goethe University of Frankfurt
Persis Bekkering:
Writer
Thomas Lamarre:
Writer
David Ferragut:
Editor, Ph.D Candidate
Bio:
Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He’s a researcher at the Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. Director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; and author of the book Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded by the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] in Portugal as the best monographic book of 2023.