Why 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" Is Freud and Lacan's Favorite Slow Song
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The 10cc group: Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley in 1977. Freud and Lacan. ANDRE CSILLAG / REX FEA/REX/SIPA / REX: FERDINAND SCHMUTZER / AFP
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A favorite of psychoanalysis, the figure of denial is at the heart of the song "I'm Not In Love," which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Here are some explanations.
The most beautiful denial in the history of popular music? "I'm Not in Love" is a declaration of love that advances—with fear and trembling—under the mask of heartbreak.
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary slow dance by British band 10cc. The song, released in May 1975, is the essence, the Platonic idea, of the slow dance.
Let's try to explain why " I'm Not In Love" is the favorite slow song of Freud and Lacan, those seducers of meaning.
In this magnetic, solemn, and numbing six-minute Rhodes piano masterpiece, a male character repeats that he is not in love. He is not the "rat man," …
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