Psychoanalysis and the Cinema - Imaginary Signifier

Klappentext Since the publications of his first essays in the early 1960s Christian Metz has produced a body of work that has established him as the most influential contemporary theorist of cinema and as a leading contributor to the development of semiotics generally. Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier is in many ways a culmination of this work. In the first half of the book Metz explores a number of aspects of the psychological anchoring of cinema as a social institution, using Freudian psychoanalysis to examine the nature of cinematic spectatorship, the relations of cinema and voyeurism, fetishism and so on. In the second half, he shifts his approach a little to look at the operations of meaning in the film text, at the figures of image and sound concatenation. Thus he is led to consideration of metaphor and metonymy in film, this involving a detailed account of these two figures as they appear in psychoanalysis and linguistics - an account which brilliantly disentangles the various analogies that have been proposed between metaphor and metonymy, condensation and displacement, paradigm and syntagm, and makes an important contribution to our general understanding of these issues as well as to our particular understanding of cinema. Throughout, the book is an argument with and recasting of initial semiotic thinking dependent on reference to fixed linguistics models; it offers something of a 'second semiotics', concerned now with the institution of modes of subjectivity, cinema as imaginary signifier, and with the movement and effects of meaning, film as text. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I THE IMAGINARY SIGNIFIER The Imaginary and the 'Good Object' in the Cinema and in the Theory of the Cinema The Investigator's Imaginary Identification, Mirror The Passion for Perceiving Disavoal, Fetishism 'Theorise', he says...(Provisional Conclusion) Notes and References to Part I PART II STORY/DISCLOSURE (A NOTE ON TWO KINDS OF VOYEURISM) Notes and References to Part II PART III THE FICTION FILM AND ITS SPECTATOR: A METAPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY Film and Dream: the Knowledge of the Subject Film and Dream: Perception and Hallucination Film and Dream: Degrees of Secondarisation Film and Phantasy The Filmic Visée Notes and References to Part III PART IV METAPHOR/METONYMY, OR THE IMAGINARY REFERENT 'Primary' Figure, 'Secondary' Figure 'Small-scale' Figures, 'Large-scale' Figures Rhetoric and Linguistics: Jakobson's Contribution Referential, Discursive Metaphor/Metonymy: a Dissymetrical Symmetry Figure and Substitution The Problem of the Word Force and Meaning Condensation From the 'Dream-work' to the 'Primary Process' 'Censorship': Barrier or Deviation? Displacement Crossings and Interweavings in Film: the Lap-dissolve as an Example of a Figuration Condensations and Displacements of the Signifier Paradigm/Syntagm in the Text of the Cure Notes and References to Part IV Index ...

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PART I THE IMAGINARY SIGNIFIER The Imaginary and the 'Good Object' in the Cinema and in the Theory of the Cinema The Investigator's Imaginary Identification, Mirror The Passion for Perceiving Disavoal, Fetishism 'Theorise', he says...(Provisional Conclusion) Notes and References to Part I PART II STORY/DISCLOSURE (A NOTE ON TWO KINDS OF VOYEURISM) Notes and References to Part II PART III THE FICTION FILM AND ITS SPECTATOR: A METAPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY Film and Dream: the Knowledge of the Subject Film and Dream: Perception and Hallucination Film and Dream: Degrees of Secondarisation Film and Phantasy The Filmic Visée Notes and References to Part III PART IV METAPHOR/METONYMY, OR THE IMAGINARY REFERENT 'Primary' Figure, 'Secondary' Figure 'Small-scale' Figures, 'Large-scale' Figures Rhetoric and Linguistics: Jakobson's Contribution Referential, Discursive Metaphor/Metonymy: a Dissymetrical Symmetry Figure and Substitution The Problem of the Word Force and Meaning Condensation From the 'Dream-work' to the 'Primary Process' 'Censorship': Barrier or Deviation? Displacement Crossings and Interweavings in Film: the Lap-dissolve as an Example of a Figuration Condensations and Displacements of the Signifier Paradigm/Syntagm in the Text of the Cure Notes and References to Part IV Index

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• Authors: Celia Britton, Christian Metz, Metz C.
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.1982
• EAN: 9780333278055
• ISBN: 978-0-333-27805-5
• No. of pages: 327
• Series: Language, Discourse, Society; Language, Discourse, Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous