Psychoanalysis and Film

Glen O. Gabbard MD is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic at Baylor College of Medecine in Houston, Texas. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston. He is further a Joint Editor-In-Chief of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' between 2001 and 2007.

• Introduction -- The End of Time: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries -- Hitchcock’s Vertigo: The Collapse of a Rescue Fantasy -- Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game -- Hidden in the Imagery: An Unconscious Scene in The Conformist -- ‘Ah Doctor, is there Nothin’ I Can Take?’: A Review of Reservoir Dogs -- Arthur Penn’s Night Moves: A Film that Interprets Us -- Lone Star: Signs, Borders and Thresholds -- Letters, Words and Metaphors: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Michael Radford’s Il Postino -- Truffaut and the Failure of Introjection -- I Have Not Spoken: Silence in The Piano -- Over-Exposure: Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb -- Narrating Desire and Desiring Narration: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The English Patient -- The Remains of the Day -- Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood’s Undoing of the Hollywood Myth of Screen Masculinity in Play ‘Misty’ For Me -- The Thing from Inner Space: Titanic and Deep Impact -- Chinatown -- Saving Private Ryan’s Surplus Repression -- M (1931) -- Remembering and Repeating in Eve’s Bayou -- Watching Voyeurs: Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) -- Egoyan’s Exotica: Where does the Real Horror Reside? -- The Real Thing? Some Thoughts on Boys Don’t Cry -- Fifteen Minutes of Fame Revisited: Being John Malkovich -- The Sixth Sense

'The connections between film and psychoanalysis exist at many levels of the imagination and mind as well as image and are. Even without knowing it, film and psychoanalysis are allies in the exploration of how to see the human being. Here is a book that takes us into these connections - a journey into both mysteries and light. It is as compelling as it is important.' - Hugh Brody, Film Director, Anthropologist, Author.'This exciting gathering of psychoanalytic studies of film represents a major breakthrough in applied psychoanalysis. a group of leading international psychoanalysts explore film as a dominant expression of contemporary culture, its reflection of both universal myths and contemporary anxiety. As Glen Gabbard rightly proposes, film serves as the cultural function that classical theatre played in ancient Greece. The psychoanalytic exploration in this volume opens original views on the artistic expression of the anxieties and conflicts that affect not only our patients but all of us.' - Otto Kernberg, Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.