Projected Shadows

<p><em>Projected Shadows</em> 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:</p><ul> <li>Establishment and resolution of Oedipal conflicts</li> <li>Representation of pathological characters on the screen</li> <li>Use of unconscious defence mechanisms</li> <li>The interplay of dreams, reality and fantasy</li> </ul><p><em>Projected Shadows</em> aims to deepen the ongoing constructive dialogue between psychoanalysis and film. Andrea Sabbadini has assembled a remarkable number of internationally renowned contributors, both academic film scholars and psychoanalysts from a variety of cultural backgrounds, who use an array of contemporary methodologies to apply psychoanalytic thinking to film.</p><p>This original collection will appeal to anyone passionate about film, as well as professionals, academics and students interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts.</p> <p><em>Gabbard,</em> Foreword. <em>Sabbadini,</em> Introduction. <em>Kline,</em> The Night of Melancholia and the Daylight of Mourning: Anne Fontaine’s <em>Comment j’ai tué mon père. Goisis, </em>Quest for a Lost Mother: Alina Marazzi’s <em>Un’ora sola ti vorrei. Wigoder, Berman, </em>Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? Keren Yedaya's <em>Or (Mon Tresor). Costantini, Golinelli</em>, The Anorexic Paradox: Matteo Garrone’s <em>First Love. Zwiebel,</em> Reparation and the Empathic Other: Christian Petzold’s <em>Wolfsburg. Sabbadini</em><em>,</em> The Talking Cure from Freud to Almodóvar: <em>Hable con ella. Portuges</em><em>,</em> Intergenerational Transmission: The Holocaust in Central European Cinema. <em>Webber</em>, Cut and Laced: Traumatism and Fetishism in Luis Buñuel’s <em>Un Chien Andalou. Taylor Robinson</em>, Two Short Films by Jan Svankmajer: <em>Jabberwocky</em> and <em>Punch and Judy. Mulvey</em>, Compilation Film as ‘Deferred Action’: Vincent Monnikendam’s <em>Mother Dao, the Turtle-like. Weinstein</em>, Moving Beyond the Constraints of the Mortal Self: Universal Images of Narcissism in Jan Troell’s <em>The Flight of the Eagle. Stein</em>, Tricycles, Bicycles, Life Cycles: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Childhood Loss and Transgenerational Parenting in Sylvain Chômet’s <em>Belleville Rendez-Vous. Diamond</em>, Loss, Mourning and Desire in Midlife: François Ozon’s<em> Under the Sand</em> and <em>Swimming Pool. Sabbadini</em>, Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Bergman's <em>Cries and Whispers. Christie</em>, Time Regained: The Complex Magic of Reverse Motion. Films Index.</p>