Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman : From Freud to Lacan and Beyond

__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. 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. Cover 1 Endorsement Page 2 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 Notes on Contributors 12 Foreword 15 Cinema: The Pervert’s Chamber 15 Introduction 20 Chapter 1 The People Eaters Are Having a Great Feast: Some Reflections on Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf 30 Chapter 2 The Cinematic Optical Unconscious of Bergman’s Persona 41 Chapter 3 Fanny and Alexander, Hamlet, and the Ethical Unconscious 50 Chapter 4 Island Earth: Bergman, Brahe, and the Many Suns 64 Chapter 5 The Truth about The Silence: Ingmar Bergman’s Masterpiece about the World 87 Chapter 6 Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Bergman’s Cries and Whispers 117 Chapter 7 The Seventh Seal: Bergman and the Frenchmen 123 Chapter 8 Serpentine Conceptual Autophagia: Lesbian Contrapuntal Dialectics in Persona and The Silence 130 Chapter 9 The Father(s) in Moses and Monotheism and Fanny and Alexander: A Closer Look at Isak Jacobi, the Jewish Magical Savior 151 Chapter 10 Prolegomena to Persona: As Existential Psychoanalysis 163 Chapter 11 Beyond Silence: On the Absence of God in the Films of Ingmar Bergman 188 Index 214 Freudian-Lacanian;,Ingmar,Bergman;,Psychoanalytic;,Persona;,The,Silence;,Hour,of,the,Wolf;,Beyond,Silence Freudian-Lacanian,Ingmar Bergman,Psychoanalytic,Persona,The Silence,Hour of the Wolf,Beyond Silence "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 - some of whom are filmmakers and practicing psychoanalysts - 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, and the 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"-- Provided by publisher