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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786885803321

Autore

Trifonova Temenuga

Titolo

Warped minds : cinema and psychopathology / / Temenuga Trifonova [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2014

ISBN

90-485-2294-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Film Culture in Transition

Disciplina

791.43653

Soggetti

Mental illness in motion pictures

Psychoanalysis and motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Warped Minds -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Story of Attention: Toward a Dynamic Model of the Self -- 2. Photography and the Construction of Psychopathology at the Fin de Siècle -- 3. Cinema and Psychoanalysis -- 4. Multiple Personality and the Hollywood 'Multiple' Film -- 5. Paranoia and the Geopolitical Conspiracy Thriller -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the self at the fin de siècle, the role of photography and film in the construction of psychopathology, the influence of psychoanalysis on the transition from static, universalizing psychiatric paradigms to dynamic styles of psychiatry foregrounding the socially constructed nature of madness, and the decline of psychoanalysis and the aestheticization of madness into a trope describing the conditions of knowledge in postmodernity as evidenced by the transformation of multiple personality and paranoia into cultural and aesthetic phenomena.