Pietro Bianchi works at the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. He was Research Fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2009–2010), and has published articles on literary theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and film studies. He also works as a film critic for the Italian magazine Cineforum and the web journals Doppiozero and Le parole e le cose.
Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the... (more)