Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema

by Sabbadini; Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780415428170
• ISBN10: 0415428173
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-05-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is discussed in its many aspects, including: loss of hope and innocence, of youth, of consciousness, of freedom and loss through death. Many other themes familiar to psychoanalytic discourse are explored in the process, such as: Establishment and resolution of Oedipal conflicts Representation of pathological characters on the screen Use of unconscious defence mechanisms The interplay of dreams, reality and fantasy Projected Shadows aims to deepen the ongoing constructive dialogue between psychoanalysis and film. Andrea Sabbadini has assembled a remarkable number of internationally renowned contributors, both academic film scholars and psychoanalysts from a variety of cultural backgrounds, who use an array of contemporary methodologies to apply psychoanalyticthinking to film. This original collection will appeal to anyone passionate about film, as well as professionals, academics and students interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
The night of melancholia and the daylight of mourning: Anne Fontaine's Comment j'ai tue mon pere	p. 6
Quest for a lost mother: Alina Marazzi's Un'ora sola ti vorrei	p. 21
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Keren Yedaya's Or (Mon Tresor)	p. 35
The anorexic paradox: Matteo Garrone's First Love	p. 46
Reparation and the empathic other: Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg	p. 56
The talking cure from Freud to Almodovar: Hable con ella	p. 65
Intergenerational transmission: the Holocaust in Central European cinema	p. 73
Cut and laced: traumatism and fetishism in Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou	p. 92
Two short films by Jan Svankmajer: Jabberwocky and Punch and Judy	p. 102
Compilation film as 'deferred action': Vincent Monnikendam's Mother Dao, the Turtle-like	p. 109
Moving beyond the constraints of the mortal self: universal images of narcissism in Jan Troell's The Flight of the Eagle	p. 119
Tricycles, bicycles, life cycles: psychoanalytic perspectives on childhood loss and transgenerational parenting in Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendez-Vous	p. 132
Loss, mourning and desire in midlife: Francois Ozon's Under the Sand and Swimming Pool	p. 145
Three sisters: sibling knots in Bergman's Cries and Whispers	p. 160
Time regained: the complex magic of reverse motion	p. 168
Films index	p. 183
Index	p. 185
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