The difficulty of difference : psychoanalysis, sexual difference & film theory / D.N. Rodowick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodowick, David Norman, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Cinema.

Routledge Library Editions: Cinema ; Volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud's thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud's writing, constructed in film

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Note on Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 The Difficulty of Difference; Chapter 2 The Return of the Exile; Chapter 3 Reading Freud ... Differently; Chapter 4 Metamorphoses; Chapter 5 The Difference of Reading; Chapter 6 Analysis Interminable; Notes; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1991"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-99781-1

1-315-85572-0

1-317-92854-7

1-317-92855-5

9781315855721

OCLC:

874146395