Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema
Roger Hargreaves
Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is discussed in its many aspects, including: loss of hope and innocence, of youth, of consciousness, of freedom and loss through death. Many other themes familiar to psychoanalytic discourse are explored in the process, such as:
- Establishment and resolution of Oedipal conflicts
- Representation of pathological characters on the screen
- Use of unconscious defence mechanisms
- The interplay of dreams, reality and fantasy
Projected Shadows aims to deepen the ongoing constructive dialogue between psychoanalysis and film. Andrea Sabbadini has assembled a ... Read more
This original collection will appeal to anyone passionate about film, as well as professionals, academics and students interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts.
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