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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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2023

ISBN

9781000917246

Edition

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Psychoanalysis

Index

Psychology

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen
1. (In)Continent Topology of Pandemics, Screens, and Scripts
2. Digital Tectonics and Cinematic Intimacy: An Epidemiological/Psychoanalytic Perspective
3. At the Mercy of the Screen: Passivity and its Vicissitudes in a Time of Crisis
4. Undine: Siren Screens
5. Prohibition and Power: Normal People as Pandemic Pornography
6. Weeping On and Off Screen: Truth, Falsity, and Art
7. “The thing did not dissatisfy me”?: Lacanian perspectives on transference and AI-driven psychotherapeutic chatbots
8. The Rise of the Lathouses: Some consequences for the speaking being and the social bond
9. Lacan on the “Telly”: Psychoanalysis on the Small Screen
10. Power and Politics in Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World
Afterword
Index