Psychoanalysis and Cinema: A Reintroduction 1. Dream 2. Identification 3. Difference 4. Object 5. Ideology 6. Conclusion: Psychoanalytic Film Thinking
Biography
Ben Tyrer is a Lecturer in Film Theory at Middlesex University in London, UK. He is the author of books and articles on film, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and the co-editor of Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory (2019) and Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: From Culture to the Clinic (2016).
"If you’ve ever wished for a clear and articulate overview that demystifies essential psychoanalytic ideas, this is it. Much more than an introduction, Ben Tyrer meticulously maps out the historical developments (and their misapplications) of psychoanalytic film theory to outline a more intersectional and accurate way of psychoanalytic film thinking. This excellent work reaffirms the critical importance of psychoanalysis for the study of the moving image, showing that a new way of ‘psychoanalytic film thinking’ is not only necessary but also essential if we are to properly understand film experience".
Professor Kelli Fuery, author of Wilfred Bion, Thinking and Emotional Experience with Moving Images (Routledge, 2018)
"With admirable clarity Tyrer takes readers on a comprehensive and fascinating journey through the key arguments of psychoanalytic film theory. Tyrer demonstrates that psychoanalytic approaches to films and cinema are needed today more than ever, and he reflects on aspects of spectatorship, race, sexuality, the cinematic gaze, and ideology, while charting the development of psychoanalytic film theory from the 1960s to the present. Impressive accounts are provided of key thinkers such as Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey, Slavoj Žižek, Todd McGowan, and others. The book should be essential reading for students as well as established film scholars".
Professor Richard Rushton, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK
