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Sarah Troubé, « The strange familiarity of time: Repetition and melancholia in Jim Jarmusch’s cinema », Cliniques méditerranéennes, ID : 10670/1.27mats
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The article explores the theme of time in three Jim Jarmusch’s movies. The pattern of repetition, which often stands for the sequences of actions, rejects the linearity of time and offers variations on different experiences of time: the time of the repressed, the time of eternity, and the primary time. It thus aims at questioning the various meanings of the timeless unconscious and the constitution, the inscription and conservation of mnemic traces. Jarmusch’s characters unveil the ordinary time’s illusions, and then can be perceived as different embodiments of melancholia. They reveal how melancholia stands out of these illusions of ordinary time, and they also point out the creative potential which can arise from the process of repetition.