A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE TV SERIES THE NO-END HOUSE: THE FASCINATING HOUSE OF DESIRE

Abstract

“It's 6 rooms, each is supposed to be scarier than the last but it's psychological- gets in your head. Everybody who goes in describes it totally different. Most people don't even make it to the sixth room, and the people who do are never seen again†("This Isn't Real" 12:17-12:34). Such are the first urban-legend like pieces of information given by one character on the No- End house, the second season title and the cornerstone around which the plot of the TV series Channel Zero revolves. Aired on the SyFy channel in 2017, the series lived true to its ambition of spiralling around the topics of imagination and the supernatural. Appearing and disappearing in diverse locations around the world, the house gives birth to an alternate reality where the border between rationality and irrationality is shattered. It occupies an omnipresent position as an object of fascination, as the centre of the gaze. In Lacan's wake, the gaze is the point at which the object looks back. The outcome is an interpretation that shatters the observing subject's sense of control. The desire to see what is being shown and what is not ubiquitous. The notion of desire will be developed; at the core of the house lays a fundamental lack that cannot be filled in. The house is a reflection of the fissures that crack open our lives when the Real disrupts them; holding a relatable force for everyone.