Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh

Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

Professor Patrick Fuery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7632-0 (ISBN)

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In a "return" to Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh explores how we can engage these foundational thinkers of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an original approach to film. The idea of the intimate spectator caught up in anxiety is developed to investigate a range of topics central to these critical approaches and cinema, including: flesh as a disruptive state formed in the relationships of intimacy and anxiety; time and the formation of cinema’s enduring objects; space and things; the sensual, the "real" and the unconscious; wildness, disruption, and resistance; and the nightmare, reading "phantasy" across the critical fields.

Along with Husserl and Freud, other key thinkers discussed include Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne in phenomenology; Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, Julia Kristeva, and Rosine Lefort in psychoanalysis. Framing these issues and critical approaches is the question: how might Husserlian phenomenology and Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, so often seen as contradistinctive, be explored through their potential commonalities rather than differences? In addressing such a question, this book postulates a new approach to film through this phenomenological/psychoanalytic reconceptualization. A wide range of films are examined not simply as exemplars, but to test the idea that cinema itself can be a version of critical thinking.

Patrick Fuery is Director and Professor of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries, Chapman University, USA. He was previously Reader in Film, Royal Holloway, University of London, Professor of Film, Sussex University, UK. He is the author of 8 books in the areas of film, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cultural theory, and visual cultures. He is currently working on a book on the phenomenology and psychoanalysis of wildness.

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements

Where Intimacy-Anxiety Was, There (Cinematic) Flesh Shall Become: Towards an Introduction

1. The Intimate Spectator, the Cinematic Ego, and the Nothing (to be Anxious About)
2. Cinema’s Enduring Object and Time
3. Four Modalities of Intimate and Anxious (Cinematic) Space
4. Shading the Real: Cinema’s Sensual Phantasms
5. Passionate Abnormalities and the Disturbances of Wildness
6. The Desire to not be Protected: Breathless Desires of the Nightmare

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	25 bw illus, 2 Figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-7632-2 / 1501376322
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7632-0 / 9781501376320
Zustand	Neuware