Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman presents a contemporary Freudian-Lacanian assessment of this classic director. This collection is the first to bring together this unique psychological perspective on Bergman’s work.
While Bergman and his films have been written about throughout the decades, until now there has not been a collection anthologizing Freudian-Lacanian perspectives on his work. Vanessa Sinclair brings together an international community of scholars and practicing psychoanalysts – some of whom are also filmmakers – to reflect on Bergman’s films, life, and work in philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. They assess individual films in depth, compare multiple films, and focus on Bergman’s life and work in a cultural context. This book includes chapters on seminal films including Persona and The Silence.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman will be essential reading for academics and students of film studies, psychoanalytic theory, and Lacan, and of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
Author(s): Vanessa Sinclair
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 217
City: London
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Cinema: The Pervert’s Chamber
Introduction
Chapter 1 The People Eaters Are Having a Great Feast: Some Reflections on Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf
Chapter 2 The Cinematic Optical Unconscious of Bergman’s Persona
Chapter 3 Fanny and Alexander, Hamlet, and the Ethical Unconscious
Chapter 4 Island Earth: Bergman, Brahe, and the Many Suns
Chapter 5 The Truth about The Silence: Ingmar Bergman’s Masterpiece about the World
Chapter 6 Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Bergman’s Cries and Whispers
Chapter 7 The Seventh Seal: Bergman and the Frenchmen
Chapter 8 Serpentine Conceptual Autophagia: Lesbian Contrapuntal Dialectics in Persona and The Silence
Chapter 9 The Father(s) in Moses and Monotheism and Fanny and Alexander: A Closer Look at Isak Jacobi, the Jewish Magical Savior
Chapter 10 Prolegomena to Persona: As Existential Psychoanalysis
Chapter 11 Beyond Silence: On the Absence of God in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
Index
