Ripley’s revulsion at Dickie is the sudden loss of fantasy mediation

Evidence

No doubt this is partly a registering of Dickie’s rejection of Tom. But it also expresses Tom’s feelings of revulsion for Dickie. What has been “snatched away” from Tom is not just Dickie “himself”, but the fantasy of Dickie. It is as if Tom is no longer capable of pretending (to himself) that Dickie is anything other than a really rather mediocre person; as if he has encountered, for the first time, the brute, stupid physicality of Dickie — has seen Dickie, directly, without the screen/sheen of fantasy to beatify him. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 248

Categorization

• XREF: The collapse of mediation and the demand for the fantasy-overlaid object echo Fisher’s earlier chapter on fantasy underpinning human drive. — connects to: Ripley fears social unmasking more than the discovery of his murders — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 254; Talk about fantasy sustains eroticism that silence about it destroys — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 178

Broader Connections

• Talk about fantasy sustains eroticism that silence about it destroys #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 178