me that at the end of the original Out One she is killed typical romantic melodrama of the forties which I hap-
-which may or may not suggest that her condition was pened to see shortly after Celine and Julie, there is a
terminal. sequence of flashbacks to accompany George Brent's
4. A notable technical achievement, since the film was reading of a diary. Then the phone rings, and he re-
shot in 16mm and blown up to 35. turns to his surroundings with a start. "I was living in
5. Or, to put it another way, a straight cut in a "normal" that diary," he says. Filrnically, this is exactly the same
film may imply as wild a transition as anything in process by which Celine and Julie find themselves living
Rivette. In Jacques Toumeur's Experiment Perilous, a in the house.
JEAN-LOUIS BAUDRY
At the end of The Interpretation of Dreams, does not seem to hold strongly to this optical
when he seeks to integrate dream elaboration model, which, as Derrida has pointed out, 2
and its particular "economy" with the psyche as brings out the shortcoming in graphic repre-
a whole, Freud assigns to the latter an optical sentation in the area earlier covered by his work
model: "Let us simply imagine the instrument on dreams. Moreover, he will later abandon the
which serves in psychic productions as a sort of optical model in favor of a writing instrument,
complicated microscope or camera." But Freud the "mystic writing pad." Nonetheless this op-