Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed
Part of The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis series - more in this series
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : August 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 264
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97254
- ISBN 13 : 9781032223223
- ISBN 10 : 1032223227
Also by Carol Owens
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Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a Lacanian perspective. The chapters in this text hold a unique focus on the intersections of film, psychoanalysis, and the subjective implications of the shift from cinema to the small screen of domestic space. The subjects span historical and current Lacanian thinking, including the representation of psychoanalysis as artifice, Lacan appearing on television, the travails and tribulations of computer mediated analysis, the traumatrope, and the techno-inflected imagined social bond of what Jacques Lacan called the 'alethosphere'. In this collection, the socio-cultural narratives and Real disruptions of the pandemic are framed as a function of the paradoxes of enjoyment characteristic of Lacanian psychoanalysis rather than merely the psychosocial repercussions of a planetary and contingent disaster. With contributions from practicing psychoanalysts, as well as academics working in related interdisciplinary areas, Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen will have appeal to readers of contemporary Lacanian work in general, to readers and researchers of contemporary psychoanalytic studies, and transdisciplinary and intersectional scholars engaged in psychoanalytic, cultural, and psycho-social research.
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For most film lovers, the turn to the small screen has been something to lament. But Carol Owens and Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan, along with their excellent contributors, show that with something lost, something has also been gained. In a series of illuminating essays, Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen shows us the incredible theoretical riches that the small screen makes evident, riches that the cinematic experience often obscures. For anyone wanting to understand why we are always looking at our screens and for those who want to make sense of our contemporary moment, this is a collection absolutely not to be missed.
Todd McGowan, Professor of Film Studies, University of Vermont, USA
"Carol Owens and Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan in this compelling collection of essays invite us to reflect on the question of subjectivity once again during the latest pandemic, the year when cinemas closed. Broad in its scope – ranging from socio-cultural studies, philosophy and art to psychoanalysis - the contributors to this collection have provided a new perspective on what shapes our reality in the contemporary techno-mediated world. This collection with a Lacanian focus offers a unique way to explore and investigate different dimensions of the impact of screens on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
Berjanet Jazani, M.D, Author, Psychoanalyst, President of The College of Psychoanalysts UK
"In the old days we used to enter into the dark room of a cinema to behold a feast laid out before our eyes, larger than life. This phantasmagoria has now entered into our lives on small screens that consume us. Welcome to the metaverse! Though none of us has a hold, reading this book helps to find the ground only psychoanalysis can begin again to put beneath our feet.
Jamieson Webster, Psychoanalyst, Author, Assistant Professor, New School for Social Research, NYC, USA
Table of Contents
Series Preface
Ian Parker
Introduction
Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan and Carol Owens
1. (In)Continent Topology of Pandemics, Screens, and Scripts
Don Kunze
2. Digital Tectonics and Cinematic Intimacy: An Epidemiological/Psychoanalytic Perspective
Robert Kilroy
3. At the Mercy of the Screen: Passivity and its Vicissitudes in a Time of Crisis
Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan
4. Undine: Siren Screens
Jessica Datema and Manya Steinkoler
5. Prohibition and Power: Normal People as Pandemic Pornography
Erica Galioto
6. Weeping on and off Screen – Truth, Falsity, and Art
Miles Link
7. "The Thing did not Dissatisfy me?" Lacanian Perspectives on Transference and AI-Driven Psychotherapeutic Chatbots
Mike Holohan
8. The rise of the lathouses: Some consequences for the speaking being and the social bond
Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez
9. Lacan on the Telly: Psychoanalysis on the Small Screen(s)
Carol Owens and Eve Watson
10.Power and Politics in Adam Curtis’ ‘Can’t Get you out of my Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World’: A Discussion
Isabel Millar, Brett Nicholls, Rosemary Overell, Daniel Tutt
Afterword - Olga Cox Cameron
About the Editor(s)
Dr Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in North Dublin. She has lectured on psychoanalysis at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, and Independent Colleges Dublin. A registered practitioner member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, she is also the founder of the Dublin Lacan Study Group. Her work has been published in a number of journals and books.
Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan is an independent scholar within the fields of Lacanian psychoanalysis, body/disability, drama, and sexuality studies. Her PhD was an interdisciplinary study of the trauma of the body in the drama of Artaud, Beckett and Genet within a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. She has published psychoanalytic articles on themes such as disability, sexuality, the phallus, and the intersections of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. She is co-organiser of the Irish Psychoanalytic Film Festival.
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