Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Imaginary and the ‘Good Object’ in the Cinema and in the Theory of the Cinema....Pages 3-16
The Investigator’s Imaginary....Pages 17-41
Identification, Mirror....Pages 42-57
The Passion for Perceiving....Pages 58-68
Disavowal, Fetishism....Pages 69-80
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Story/Discourse....Pages 91-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Film and Dream: The Knowledge of the Subject....Pages 101-108
Film and Dream: Perception and Hallucination....Pages 109-119
Film and Dream: Degrees of Secondarisation....Pages 120-128
Film and Phantasy....Pages 129-137
The Filmic Visée....Pages 138-142
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
‘Primary’ Figure, ‘Secondary’ Figure....Pages 154-167
‘Small-scale’ Figures, ‘Large-scale’ Figures....Pages 168-173
Rhetoric and Linguistics: Jakobson’s Contribution....Pages 174-182
Referential, Discursive....Pages 183-196
Metaphor/Metonymy: a Dissymmetrical Symmetry....Pages 197-206
Figure and Substitution....Pages 207-211
The Problem of the Word....Pages 212-228
Force and Meaning....Pages 229-234
Condensation....Pages 235-244
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
From the ‘Dream-work’ to the ‘Primary Process’....Pages 245-252
‘Censorship’: Barrier or Deviation?....Pages 253-265
Displacement....Pages 266-273
Crossings and Interweavings in Film: The Lap-dissolve as an Example of a Figuration....Pages 274-280
Condensations and Displacements of the Signifier....Pages 281-292
Paradigm/Syntagm in the Text of the Cure....Pages 293-297
Back Matter....Pages 298-327