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Nottingham French Studies, Vol. 47 No, 3, Autumn 2008 IDENTIFICATION TODAY SARAH COOPER From the beginning of the twentieth century through to the present day, psychoanalysis has furnished both literary and film studies with interpretative schemata and structural paradigms for the analysis of texts and films. In both realms, the psychological process of identification has provided a privileged means of accounting for the complexity of the reading encounter and cinematic spectatorship. The explanatory power of this psychological mechanism has been articulated most extensively within the realm of film studies. Yet perhaps as a result of the central place that psychoanalysis and key processes such as identification have occupied in this discipline, this is also the domain in which psychoanalytic models have been most thoroughly questioned in recent years. In the light of such critiques, these concluding remarks to this Special Issue will assess what role identification might still be thought to play today in accounting for how we respond to films and texts. Although Freudian psychoanalysis had an impact within the Humanities from its moment of inception, it was not until the middle of the twentieth century that literary and film studies underwent a more thoroughgoing psychoanalytic turn. This
Nottingham French Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2008
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