Narcissistic Fantasies in Film and Fiction: Masters of the Universe

ISBN-13: 9780367429164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Ilany Kogan

Opis

This book includes an exploration of narcissistic fantasies from various protagonists of film and novels and focuses on the fantasy of the omnipotence of the self, which is a predominantly narcissistic desire to be a "Master of the Universe", a deity, an omnipotent, immortal figure.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Theoretical Discussion  01. Revisiting Narcissistic Character Part 2: Musical Drama  02. Master of the Ring: The Fight for Supremacy in Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen (1848-1872)  Part 3: Films and Fiction  03. The Gods of Wall Street: Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) through a Psychoanalytic Lens  04. The Gods of the Digital World: Spike Jonze’s Movie Her (2013): Computer Therapy and the Psychoanalytic Setting  05. Omnitpotence and the Necrophilic Fantasy: Craig Gillespie’s Lars and the Real Girl (2007) and Ian McEwan’s Short Story Dead as They Come (2006): A Psychoanalytic Examination  Part 4: TV Drama and Fiction  06. Lord of the Criminal World: Vince Gilligan’s Television Series Breaking Bad (2008 – 2013) and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s Novella The Duel (1891): Transformation of Personality: Deformation and Reformation in Confronting Death  Part 5: Fiction  07. A Fatal Attraction to Death: Some Reflections on Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers (1981)  08. God and the Novelist: The Purpose of Creative Writing in Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001)  09. Savior of the Universe: Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) through a Psychoanalytic Lens  Final Words

O autorze

Ilany Kogan is a Training and Supervisory Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She works as teacher and supervisor in various places in the world. She was awarded the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide (2005) and the Sigourney Award (2016).