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What is the role of the unconscious in our visceral approaches to cinema?
Embodied Encounters offers a unique collection of essays written by leading thinkers and writers in film studies, with a guiding principle that embodied and material existence can, and perhaps ought to, also allow for the unconscious. The contributors embrace work which has brought ‘the body’ back into film theory and question why psychoanalysis has been excluded from more recent interrogations.
The chapters included here engage with Jung and Freud, Lacan and Bion, and Klein and Winnicott in their interrogations of contemporary cinema and the moving image. In three parts the book presents examinations of both classic and contemporary films including Black Swan, Zero Dark Thirty and The Dybbuk:
Part 1 – The Desire, the Body and the Unconscious
Part 2 – Psychoanalytical Theories and the Cinema
Part 3 – Reflections and Destructions, Mirrors and Transgressions
Embodied Encounters is an eclectic volume which presents in one book the voices of those who work with different psychoanalytical paradigms. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, scholars and students of film and culture studies and film makers.
Editions of Embodied Encounters
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What is the role of the unconscious in our visceral approaches to cinema?
Embodied Encounters offers a unique collection of essays written by leading thinkers and writers in film studies, with a guiding principle that embodied and material existence can, and perhaps ought to, also allow for the unconscious. The contributors embrace work which has brought ‘the body’ back into film theory and question why psychoanalysis has been excluded from more recent interrogations.
The chapters included here engage with Jung and Freud, Lacan and Bion, and Klein and Winnicott in their interrogations of contemporary cinema and the moving image. In three parts the book presents examinations of both classic and contemporary films including Black Swan, Zero Dark Thirty and The Dybbuk:
Part 1 – The Desire, the Body and the Unconscious
Part 2 – Psychoanalytical Theories and the Cinema
Part 3 – Reflections and Destructions, Mirrors and Transgressions
Embodied Encounters is an eclectic volume which presents in one book the voices of those who work with different psychoanalytical paradigms. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, scholars and students of film and culture studies and film makers.
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What is Embodied Encounters about?
What is the role of the unconscious in our visceral approaches to cinema?
Embodied Encounters offers a unique collection of essays written by leading thinkers and writers in film studies, with a guiding principle that embodied and material existence can, and perhaps ought to, also allow for the unconscious. The contributors embrace work which has brought ‘the body’ back into film theory and question why psychoanalysis has been excluded from more recent interrogations.
The chapters included here engage with Jung and Freud, Lacan and Bion, and Klein and Winnicott in their interrogations of contemporary cinema and the moving image. In three parts the book presents examinations of both classic and contemporary films including Black Swan, Zero Dark Thirty and The Dybbuk:
Part 1 – The Desire, the Body and the Unconscious
Part 2 – Psychoanalytical Theories and the Cinema
Part 3 – Reflections and Destructions, Mirrors and Transgressions
Embodied Encounters is an eclectic volume which presents in one book the voices of those who work with different psychoanalytical paradigms. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, scholars and students of film and culture studies and film makers.
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Society and Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints > Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Where can I read a sample of Embodied Encounters?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781317636489
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Embodied Encounters?
Agnieszka Piotrowska
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Embodied Encounters is available as ebook(ISBN 9781317636489) and pdf(ISBN 9781317636496)