Vighi, Fabio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4245-0144 2005. Lacan for cinema today: on the uncanny Pouvoir de la Vérité. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 10 (3) , pp. 232-251. 10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100046 |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100046
Abstract
This paper is part of a wider project that brings together psychoanalysis and film by focusing on the most disruptive and potentially subversive Lacanian notion, that of the Real. My work explores the dialectical relationship between film as a process of symbolic signification and the unconscious/Real underside that it produces, arguing that only by attempting to read the traces of unconscious desire secreted by film can we encroach upon its "truth". The key cinematic concepts of editing, suture and gaze are here re-assessed through Lacanian theory, while their theoretical and political potential is measured against the work of Italian directors Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Modern Languages |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Lacan, Žižek, cinema, Real, gaze |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
ISSN: | 1088-0763 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2022 08:51 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/56232 |
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