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>