Psychoanalyzing Cinema

The philosophical systems of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj ?i?ek are formidable in their own right. Lacanian psychoanalysis has had a long history of developmental application to cinema studies, ?i?ek being one of its primary exponents. Deleuzian cinematic studies develop a schizoanalysis of cinema, which both challenges as well as supplements these past developments. The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies.

jan jagodzinski is a professor of Visual Art and Media Education in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. His most recent books include Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media (2004); Music in Youth Culture: A Lacanian Approach (2005); Youth to Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia (2008); Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism: Deconstructing the Oral Eye (2010); Misreading Postmodern Antigone: Marco Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh (Diavolo in Corpo) (2011); and Arts Based Research: A Critique and Proposal (with Jason Wallin, 2013).