Psychoanalysis and Cinema

Introduction: From Plato's Cave to Freud's Screen, E. Ann Kaplan; Chapter 1 Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” inspired by Duel in the Sun, Laura Mulvey; Chapter 2 A Denial of Difference: Theories of Cinematic Identification, Anne Friedberg; Chapter 3 Remembering Women: Psychical and Historical Constructions in Film Theory, Mary Ann Doane; Chapter 4 Femininity and the Masquerade: Anne of the Indies, Claire Johnston; Chapter 5 Cinematic Abreaction: Tourneur's Cat People, Deborah Linderman; Chapter 6 Believing in the Cinema, Raymond Bellour, Dana Polan; Chapter 7 Historical Trauma and Male Subjectivity, Kaja Silverman; Chapter 8 Motherhood and Representation: From Postwar Freudian Figurations to Postmodernism, E. Ann Kaplan; Chapter 9 Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Postwar Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Janet Walker; Chapter 10 Psychological Explanation in the Films of Lang and Pabst, Janet Bergstrom; Chapter 11 Not Speaking with Language/Speaking with No Language: Leslie Thornton's Adynata, Linda Peckham; Chapter 12 Some Ruminations around the Cinematic Antidotes to the Oedipal Net(les) while Playing with De Lauraedipus Mulvey, or, He May Be Off Screen, but …, Yvonne Rainer; Chapter 13 Dialogue: Remembering (this memory of) a film, Raymond Bellour, Guy Rosolato, Thomas Y. Levin;