the “object small a” is the pure form of a curve, this sinthome discernible in multiple guises that are echoed in each other—the uncanny curved shapes from the credits, the curve in Madeleine’s hair (copied from the same curve in the hair of Carlotta Valdes from her portrait), the winding streets of San Francisco where Scottie is tailing Madeleine, the spiral of the descending staircase in the tower

in the film Vertigo http://ift.tt/2nxXzbO