1st Edition

Jacques Lacan and Cinema Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation

By Pietro Bianchi Copyright 2017
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the intervention on the mirror stage in the Forties to the elaboration of the object-gaze in the Sixties. As a consequence, a long tradition of film studies used Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to explain the... Read more
Introduction , Between Imaginary and images , The cut of the structure , Eisenstein and the structuralism of cinema , Lacan at the movies , A matter of gaze , Straub—Huillet and the presenting of object-gaze , Cinema: towards formalisation , Epilogue

Biography

Pietro Bianchi