Lindsay Seers and ventriloquism

In the relationship between the doll maker and the doll, the doll displays a part of the doll maker’s personality. Likewise with Ventriloquism, one is speaking for another, the Vent for the Dummy. Lindsay Seers states in Jennifer Poole’s article, that ‘the vampire, the ventriloquist, the possessed, all refer in some sense to the problematic relationship between subject and object, the fusion and confusion of them.’ Furthermore, Steven Connor from his book, Dumbstruck suggests that ‘the ventriloquist’s voice is like the neurotic symptom, it is both wound and sore, enigma and explication, trauma and therapy.’ He continues ‘for the voice is the mark both of the self’s presence to and its estrangement from itself; the ventriloquial voice enacts the strangeness of the self’s self presence.