“RoboCop, a futuristic story about a policeman shot to death and then revived after all parts of his body have been replaced by artificial substitutes, introduces a more tragic note: the hero who finds himself literally “between two deaths”—clinically dead and at the same time provided with a new, mechanical body—starts to remember fragments of his previous, human life and thus undergoes a process of resubjectivication, changing gradually back from pure incarnated drive to a being of desire…the fantasy of a person who does not want to stay dead but returns again and again to pose a threat to the living.”
