Rollins Helen - Psychocinema - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivity. It traces the history of the influence of psychoanalysis on cinema and shows how the detour into ideologies of identity and difference eclipses the premise of the first and the emancipatory power of the second. The book argues that psychoanalysis does not simply help us elucidate what we see on screen: rather there is a fundamental relationship between the structure of psychoanalysis and that of cinema. Cinema acts upon the viewer like psychoanalysis upon the analysand and can expose them to the universal Lack inherent in their desire. This process undermines the unconscious logic of capitalism which relies on a promise in fulfilment. Rollins a filmmaker shows how reductive interpretations of psychoanalytic film theory have permeated film education and film practice and have affected the way films are made and watched to the detriment of contemporary philosophy and politics. Psychocinema urges filmmakers theorists and audiences to embrace the truly radical and emancipatory potential of cinema: its capacity to confront us with the universal Lack in our desire.
Title: Psychocinema
Author(s): Rollins Helen
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509561148
Pages: 140 Pages
Publication Date: 11/20/2024
Series: Theory Redux
Category: Society & Culture: General