Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious

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Traumatic Encounters brings together film and psychoanalysis in an vibrantly original way. By fusing Lacanian theory with Italian cinema, the book excavates the repressed knowledge that lurks in the subconscious structure of the film narrative. Essentially, the book explores the relationship between filmmaking and its subliminal underside by locating and reading elusive traces of the subconscious hidden within the murky alcoves of the film's narrative. The Italian directors and films discussed (Antonioni, Pasolini, Rosellini, etc.) all convey the aspiration to push cinema beyond its own repres.;Front Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Figurations of the Real: locating the unconscious -- Enjoying the Real: unconscious strategies of subversion -- Adventures in the Real of sexual difference -- The postmodern Real: notes on the return of Oedipus -- Works Cited -- Index of Names.