Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Žižek

290 Pages·2012·3.916 MB·English

by  Jan Jagodzinski (eds.)

Psychoanalyzing Cinema
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Psychoanalyzing Cinema
A Productive Encounter with
Lacan, Deleuze, and Žižek
Edited by
jan jagodzinski
PSYCHOANALYZING CINEMA
Copyright © jan jagodzinski, 2012.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-33855-5
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DOI 10.1057/9781137116949
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Psychoanalyzing cinema : a productive encounter with Lacan, Deleuze,
and Žižek / [edited by] Jan Jagodzinski.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Psychoanalysis and motion pictures. 2. Motion pictures—
Psychological aspects. 3. Lacan, Jacques, 1901–1981—Criticism
and interpretation. 4. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925–1995—Criticism and
interpretation. 5. Žižek, Slavoj—Criticism and interpretation.
I. Jagodzinski, Jan, 1948–
PN1995.9.P783P795 2012
791.43(cid:2)653—dc23 2012013712
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.
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First edition: October 2012
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To
Ian Buchanan
whose collaborative generosity continues to keep critical thought alive
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction . . . of Sorts, Sort of 1
jan jagodzinski
Lacan: Master I 1
Žižek: Master II 7
Slave Revolt: Guattari 10
Badiou: Master III 13
Revolt Slave! Deleuze 17
SchizoCrets 19
Part I Encountering Lacan
1 Light, Camera, Action! The Luminous Worlds of Jacques
Lacan and Gilles Deleuze 45
Hanjo Berressem
2 Hearing Voices: Schizoanalysis and the Voice as
Image in the Cinema of David Lynch 71
Frida Beckman
3 Encore: Trauma and Counter-memory in Kim Ki-duk’s Time 89
Meera Lee
Part II Encountering Deleuze
4 Antagonism or Multiplicity: The Struggle between
Psychoanalysis and Deleuze in Godard’s Cinema 111
Todd McGowan
viii CONTENTS
5 Against Limits: Deleuze, Lacan, and the Possibility of Love 129
Sheila Kunkle
6 Occasioning the Real: Lacan, Deleuze, and Cinematic
Structuring of Sense 147
Emanuelle Wessels
Part III Encountering Žižek
7 The Universe as Metacinema 169
Patricia Pisters
8 On the Possibilities of Political Art: How Žižek
Misreads Deleuze and Lacan 205
Robert Samuels
9 The Surplus Gaze of Legibility: Guilt, Ethics, and
Out-of-Field in Deleuze, Lacan, and Žižek 227
A. Kiarina Kordela
Part IV Encountering . . .
01 Living . . . Again: The Revolutionary Cine-Sign of
Zombie-Life 249
Jason Wallin
Notes on Contributors 271
Index 275
List of Illustrations
1.1 Lacan’s Three Diagrams 54
Jacques Lacan, Four Fundamental Concepts of
Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XI
(NY: W. W. Norton, 1978), p. 91 and p. 106.
2.1 Aligning the body with an already determined voice 75
2.2 The present becoming thin as a mirror 76
2.3 A song and a tear that already exist 77
From Mulholland Drive (2001) directed by David Lynch,
Universal Pictures
3.1 A path crossing of Se-hŭi (Park Ji-yeon) and
Sae- hŭi (Seong Hyeon-a) in the opening sequence of Time 90
From Time (Shi gan) (2006) directed by Kim Ki-duk,
Happinet Pictures
5.1 Manni and Lola 138
From Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) (1998) directed by
Tom Tykwer, Sony Pictures Classics
6.1 Arial View, Dogville 157
6.2 Grace and Tom 159
From Dogville (2003) directed by Lars von Trier,
Zentropa Entertainments
01.1 Zombie 250
From Land of the Dead (2005) directed by George A. Romero,
Universal Pictures