1st Edition
Wilfred Bion, Thinking, and Emotional Experience with Moving Images Being Embedded
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Theory of Thinking for Moving Image Experience
Chapter 3 Wandering Reverie and the Aesthetic Experience of Being Adrift
Chapter 4 Metaphor, the Analytic Field, and the Embedded Spectator
Chapter 5 Group Experience, Collective Memory and DreamingChapter 6 Linking, Intentionality and the Container-Contained
Chapter 7 Transformation: The Idiomatic Encounter and Use of Moving Image as Object
Chapter 8 Being Embedded: Rhizome, Decalcomania and Containment
Biography
Kelli Fuery is Assistant Professor at Dodge College for Film and Media Arts, Chapman University, USA. She is the author of New Media: Culture and Image (2009) and co-author of Visual Cultures and Critical Theory (2003). She has also published widely on the themes of visual culture, psychoanalysis and critical theory.
"This is a game-changing book, and one that lays down an important challenge to scholars of the moving image. In setting out the structuring silences and omissions made within the field whenever a time-worn version of psychoanalysis is brought to bear, Fuery makes a compelling case for the importance of object relational ideas in shaping lived and psychological experiences of film and television. Providing a lively, engaging, erudite, and spirited approach, this book shows how a sustained understanding of the work of Wilfred Bion affords new perspectives on the emotional invitations of moving image encounters. Fuery deftly defines complex ideas in accessible ways, supplying a route into object relations theory for newcomers. At the same time, though, she weaves a sophisticated, nuanced argument about the layers of theoretical complexity at work in her analysis, bringing in the ideas of analysts such as Melanie Klein and Christopher Bollas, as well as the work of film philosophers and psychoanalytic critics more broadly. The book adds much needed depth to debates about psychic experience and emotional lives in relation to screen culture, showing how psychoanalysis expands our understanding of cognitive processes and offers new approaches to theorising audiences. This will be a must-read for anyone invested in moving image theory and criticism."-Caroline Bainbridge, PhD, PFHEA, Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis, University of Roehampton and Film Editor, International Journal of Psychoanalysis
