Psychocinema
Book Details
- Publisher : Polity Press
- Published : 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 140
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97942
- ISBN 13 : 9781509561148
- ISBN 10 : 1509561145
Reviews and Endorsements
Helen Rollins’s Psychocinema does something that is very rare: it aims at changing the very frame of how cinema and psychoanalysis are related. Rollins shows that viewing a film is in itself a psychoanalytic experience, the effect of film on the viewer is that of psychoanalysis on the analysand. Watching a film confronts us with the truth of our desire in all its inconsistencies, with the lack that sustains this desire. This ground-breaking thesis is demonstrated by dozens of illustrious examples, and they make the book not only insanely readable but also an important contribution to today’s politics of emancipation. I didn’t dare even to imagine that a book like Psychocinema could exist. But miracles happen, and Rollins’s book is one of them.
Slavoj Žižek