Projected Shadows: Psycholanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema Gabbard Glen O.
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…
Specifikacia Projected Shadows: Psycholanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema Gabbard Glen O.
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 conflictsRepresentation of pathological characters on the screenUse of unconscious defence mechanismsThe interplay of dreams, reality and fantasyProjected Shadows aims to deepen the ongoing constructive dialogue between psychoanalysis and film. Andrea Sabbadini has assembled a remarkable number of internationally renowned contributors, both academic film