PROJECTED SHADOWS - PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS ON THE REPRESENTATION OF LOSS IN EUROPEAN CINEMA

Contributors XI

Foreword XV
GLEN O. GABBARD

Acknowledgements XXI

Introduction 1
ANDREA SABBADINI

1 The night of melancholia and the daylight of mourning: Anne Fontaines Comment j ai tué mon père 6
T. JEFFERSON KLINE

2 Quest for a lost mother: Alina Marazzis Unora sola ti vorrei 21
PIETRO ROBERTO GOISIS

3 Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Keren Yedayas Or (Mon Tresor) 35
SHIMSHON WIGODER AND EMANUEL BERMAN

4 The anorexic paradox: Matteo Garrones First Love 46
MARIA VITTORIA COSTANTlNI AND PAOLA GOLINELLl

5 Reparation and the empathic other: Christian Petzolds Wolfsburg 56
RALF ZWIEBEL

6 The talking cure from Freud to Almodóvar: Hable con ella 65
ANDREA SABBADINI

7 lntergenerational transmission: the Holocaust in Central European cinema 73
CATHERINE PORTUGES

8 Cut and laced: traumatism and fetishism in Luis Buñuels Un Chien Andalou 92
ANDREW WEBBER

9 Two short films by Jan Svankmajer:Jabberwocky and Punch and Judy 102
HELEN TAYLOR ROBINSON

10 Compilation film as deferred action: Vincent Monnikendams Mother Dao, the Turtle-like 109
LAURA MULVEY

11 Moving beyond the constraints of the mortal self universal images of narcissism in Jan Troells The Flight of the Eagle 119
LISSA WEINSTEIN

12 Tricycles, bicycles, life cycles: psychoanalytic perspectives on childhood loss and transgenerational parenting in Sylvain Chômets Belleville Rendez- Vous 132
ALEXANDER STEIN

13 Loss, mourning and desire in midlife: François Ozons Under the Sand and Swimming Pool 145
DIANA DIAMOND

14 Three sisters: sibling knots in Bergmans Cries and Whispers 160
ANDREA SABBADINI

15 Time regained: the complex magic of reverse motion 168
IAN CHRISTIE

Films index 183
lndex 185