Introduction to 'Cinematic Techniques and Psychic Mechanisms - Psychoanalysis and Film'

摘要

In his introduction to his book on psychoanalysis and film, the key papers that he edited for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Glen Gabbard (2001) reprinted his article on the approaches that psychoanalysts have used to study film. He included the underlying cultural mythology, the filmmaker's subjectivity, universal developmental moments or crises, the appropriation of psychoanalytic constructs by the filmmaker, the analysis of a character in the narrative, the relationship of dreamwork to film, and the analysis of spectatorship. This innovative paper by Kaufman on "cinematic techniques and psychic mechanisms - psychoanalysis and film" particularly focuses on Gabbard's last two approaches but includes some aspects of the analysis of characters in the narrative. Beginning with a focus on the overdetermined image she aptly explores the relationship between filmmaking techniques and unconscious psychic processes. She includes the use of sound and music, framing, shot production, montage, symbolism, and the narrative structure. She also discusses how earlier scenes can be refigured in our minds and how techniques of narration can engage the spectator in ways that produce a shattering psychological experience.