Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film Locating the Cinematic Unconscious

• Main Author: Vighi, Fabio
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Intellect Books 2006; Intellect, Limited; Intellect
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Italy; Motion pictures; Motion pictures, Italian; PERFORMING ARTS; Psychoanalysis and motion pictures; Psychological aspects

'Traumatic Encounters' addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film in a thoroughly original way, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema as a means to unravel the deepest kernel of repressed knowledge around which film narratives are constructed....