'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution. The politics of the Middle East, the pressures within Japanese society, the dynamics of the drug scene, racism, and the effects of mechanical thinking in institutions and cultures all serve to illustrate in this book the intimate connections between paranoia and...
'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being p...
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...
Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the repr...
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...
Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the repr...
The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a specific expertise in the interpretation of films, as well as the filmmakers themselves. This composite approach offers a fascinating insight into the world of cinema.
The Couch and the Silver Screen is illustrated with stills throughout and Andrea Sabbadini's...
The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. ...
The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analyzed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a specific expertise in the interpretation of films, as well as the filmmakers themselves. This composite approach offers a fascinating insight into the world of cinema. The Couch and the Silver Screen is illustrated with stills throughout and Andrea Sabbadini's introduction provides a theoretical and...
The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic...
The experience of watching films entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional perspectives."Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film: Moving Images "offers its readers in an accessible language one such viewpoint, informed by Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic insights and therapeutic experience. Using a psychoanalytic interpretative approach, some twenty-five important feature films are discussed as the artistic vehicles of new, unsuspected meanings.
The first chapter looks at films which...
The experience of watching films entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be can be enriched by the opportunity to re...
The experience of watching films entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional perspectives."Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film: Moving Images "offers its readers in an accessible language one such viewpoint, informed by Andrea Sabbadini's psychoanalytic insights and therapeutic experience. Using a psychoanalytic interpretative approach, some twenty-five important feature films are discussed as the artistic vehicles of new, unsuspected meanings.
The first chapter looks at films which...
The experience of watching films entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be can be enriched by the opportunity to re...
