Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis

The Interpreter of Desires
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-87129-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: The LACK Book Series

Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Iranian Shi'ite thought, and Islamicate sexualities, Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires provides a groundbreaking analysis of the logic of desire and sexuality in key films of contemporary Iranian cinema, arguing that there is a profound, albeit surprising, correlation between post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and psychoanalysis that has remained unthought.

Looking through the prism of psychoanalysis, Farshid Kazemi argues that censorship on the representation and expression of sexual desire in Iranian films has, contrary to the desired effect, produced a cinema of desire. This book is the first to provide an analysis of the unconscious structure of desire and sexuality operative in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, demonstrating that psychoanalytic literature is uniquely positioned to shed light on this aspect of film. Kazemi uncovers the hidden libidinal economy of Iranian cinema by exposing the fact that despite the State censor’s desire to suppress desire, it has inadvertently inscribed desire in its formal structure. The book offers a compelling and innovative examination of Iranian cinema through a psychoanalytic lens, contributing significantly to the field of film studies.

Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to academics and scholars of film studies, psychoanalytic studies, Lacanian theory, film theory, Iranian cinema, global cinema, Iranian studies, and Middle Eastern studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kazemi, Farshid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis (or Watching Iranian Movies with Lacan)

Part I. Desire between Gaze and Voice

Chapter 1: A Cinema of Desire: The Object-Gaze in Shirin and Baran

1.1 The Gaze in Lacan: From Screen Theory to the Object-Gaze

1.2 The Averted Gaze as Looking Awry: An Islamic Theory of the Gaze

1.3 The Film Returns the Gaze: Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin

1.4 The Fantasized Object-Gaze in Baran

Chapter 2: The Voice as Love Obejct: The Acousmatic Voice in Gabbeh and The May Lady

2.1 Chion with Lacan: The Acousmatic Voice and Feminist

Psychoanalytic Film Theory

2.2 Veiling and Aurality: An Islamic Theory of the Female Voice

2.3 The Acousmatic Voice in Gabbeh

2.4 The Acousmêtre in The May Lady

Part II. The Fright of Real Desires

Chapter 3: From Femininity to Masculinity and Back: The Feminine ‘No!’

in Daughters of the Sun

3.1 Daughters of the Sun (Dokhtaran-e khorshid)

3.2 Symbolic Castration and the Name-of-the-Father

3.3 The Depressive Position and Melancholic Identification

3.4 Female Homoeroticism and Objet petit a

3.5 Love beyond Law and Feminine Jouissance

3.6 Misrecognition and Male Homoeroticism (shahed-bazi)

3.7 The Lacanian Act and the Feminine ‘No!’

Chapter 4: Dreaming of a Nightmare in Tehran: The Fright of Real Desires

in Atomic Heart

4.1 Atomic Heart between The Weird and the Eerie

4.2 Reality Structured by Fantasy or Fantasy as an Ideological Category

4.3 Ideology and the Structure of Toilets

4.4 Repetition or The Double as the Thing (das Ding)

4.5 Che Voui? or the Desire of the Other

4.6 The Fright of Real Desires

4.7 The Collapse of the Fantasy and the Lacanian Real

4.8 The Enigma of Desire and the Dream within a Dream

4.9 Dreaming of a Nightmare in Tehran

Conclusion: The Darkness of Desire or the Desire of Iranian Cinema  Bibliography

Filmography

Über Autor(innen)

Farshid Kazemi is Lecturer in Film Studies at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Canada. He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests combine an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to film and media studies, film theory, Iranian studies, and Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. His book on the film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was published by Liverpool University Press in 2021.