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Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis
- The Mechanism of Self
Engelsk Paperback
Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis
- The Mechanism of Self
Engelsk Paperback

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Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis explores psychological disorder as common to the human condition using a unique three-angled approach: psychoanalysis recognises the inherent suffering encountered by each subject due to developmental phases; psychology applies specific categorisation to how this suffering manifests; cinema depicts suffering through a combination of video and aural elements.

Functioning as a culturally reflexive medium, the six feature films analysed, including Black Swan (2010) and The Machinist (2004), represent some of the most common psychological disorders and lived experiences of the contemporary era. This book enters unchartered terrain in cinema scholarship by combining clinical psychology’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Five (DSM-V) to organise and diagnose each character, and psychoanalysis to track the origin, mechanism and affect of the psychological disorder within the narrative trajectory of each film. Lacan’s theories on the infantile mirror phase, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic, Žižek’s theories on the Real, the big Other and the Event, and Kristeva’s theories on abjection and melancholia work in combination with the DSM’s classification of symptoms to interpret six contemporary pieces of cinema.

By taking into consideration that origin, mechanism, affect and symptomatology are part of an interconnected group, this book explores psychological disorder as part of the human condition, something which contributes to and informs personal identity. More specifically, this research refutes the notion that psychological disorder and psychological health exist as a binary, instead recognising that what has traditionally been pathologised, may instead be viewed as variations on human identity.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9798765105672
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
8765105672
Udg. Dato:
23 jan 2025
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Oplagsdato:
23 jan 2025
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