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    Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain

    Editors: Jamie Ruers and Stefan Marianski

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    Drawn from a major Freud Museum London conference, Freud/Lynch goes against the dubious cliché of finding Freudian solutions to Lynchian mysteries. Rather than presuming to fill in what Lynch leaves open by positing some forbidden psychosexual reality lurking behind his trademark red curtains, this book instead maintains a fidelity to the mysteries of his wonderful and strange filmic worlds, finding in them productive spaces where thought and imagination can be set to work.

    With contributions from Olga Cox Cameron, Tamara Dellutri, Allister Mactaggart, Stefan Marianski, Richard Martin, Todd McGowan, Carol Owens, Chris Rodley, Jamie Ruers, Andrea Sabbadini, and Mary Wild.

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    Jamie Ruers and Stefan Marianski

    ISBN

    9781800130654

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    196

    Publication Date

    November 2022

    Subject Areas

    Psychoanalysis, Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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    The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative consistency. Yet despite their opacity, they hold us transfixed.

    Lynch, who once told an interviewer “I love dream logic,” would surely agree with Sigmund Freud’s famous claim that “before the problem of the creative artist, psychoanalysis must lay down its arms.” But what else might the two agree on?

    With contributions from scholars, psychoanalysts, cinephiles and filmmakers, this collection of essays explores potential affinities and disjunctions between Lynch and Freud. Encompassing themes such as art, identity, architecture, fantasy, dreams, hysteria and the unconscious, Freud/Lynch takes as its point of departure the possibility that the enterprise in which these two distinct investigators are engaged might in some sense be a shared one.

    About the editors

    About the editors

     

    Stefan Marianski is Education Manager at the Freud Museum London, where he works with young people to engage them with psychoanalytic thought. He has organised a number of events and conferences on psychoanalytic themes, and has written and lectured on dreams, sexuality, anthropology, surrealism, and masculinity. He is also a member of the Psychosis Therapy Project, which provides low-cost psychoanalytic psychotherapy for people experiencing psychosis.

     

    Jamie Ruers is an art historian specialising in art and culture from Vienna 1900 and Surrealist art and film. She received her BA from the University of Plymouth in 2014 and her MA from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2015. She is a researcher and the events manager at the Freud Museum London where she organises talks, courses and conferences on applied psychoanalysis, typically to art, culture, and contemporary issues.

    Contents

    Contents

    Acknowledgements
    About the editors and contributors

    Introduction
    Jamie Ruers and Stefan Marianski

    CHAPTER 1
    “Listen, do you want to know a secret?” Lynch stays silent
    Chris Rodley

    CHAPTER 2
    What’s so Lynchian about that? Defining a cultural moment with some notes from Freud and Lacan
    Carol Owens

    CHAPTER 3
    Dream logic in Mulholland Drive
    Olga Cox Cameron

    CHAPTER 4
    Lost angels in Los Angeles: Lynchian psychogenic fugues
    Mary Wild

    CHAPTER 5
    “It’s a strange world, isn’t it?” A voyeuristic lens on David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
    Andrea Sabbadini

    CHAPTER 6
    The fragmented case of the Lynchian hysteric
    Jamie Ruers

    CHAPTER 7
    Möbian adventures on the lost highway
    Stefan Marianski

    CHAPTER 8
    “It is an illusion”: the artful life of David Lynch
    Allister Mactaggart

    CHAPTER 9
    David Lynch sprawls
    Richard Martin

    CHAPTER 10
    Waiting for Agent Cooper: the ends of fantasy in Twin Peaks: The Return
    Todd McGowan

    CHAPTER 11
    Panel discussion on Twin Peaks: The Return
    Tamara Dellutri, Richard Martin, Allister Mactaggart, and Todd McGowan

    Index

    3 reviews for Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain

    1. Slavoj Žižek – 12/05/2022

      Freud and Lynch are predestined to meet. Only through Freud can we discern in Lynch’s films an authentic effort of thought, not just a postmodern confusion. And only through Lynch’s films can we see how relevant Freud’s theory remains for grasping the crazy predicament we live in. Freud/Lynch is thus a collection of essays which was predestined to be written.

    2. Bobby K, ‘Diane Podcast’ – 12/05/2022

      Freud–Lynch, in their respective deployment of the tools of analysis and immersion, are among the West’s most important cartographers of the dream space. Approaching this mutual territory from contending directions, an important unification is achieved through the essays in this spirited collection: what appear to be opposing modes of uncovering the most obscured patches of human consciousness are revealed to not just share complementary features. They in fact inhabit an entangled perspective, suggesting a common oneiric logic.

    3. Oliver Cutler, Cinematheme Magazine 2022 – 06/01/2023

      ‘this collection raises several important questions, pertinent both to psychoanalysis and an appreciation of Lynch. What are the implications of trying to interrupt trauma? To what extent is Lynch’s oeuvre an attempt to confront the malevolence of the Other? At what point do hysteric representations begin to hystericize the spectator? Can the free association of psychoanalysis be reconciled with the free association of transcendental meditation? By exploring these questions, the reader can begin to peer behind the Lynchian curtain and will, most likely, see quite a bit more than they might have expected to. The collection feels fresh and unquestionably offers more than just a rehashing of the popular psychoanalytic readings of Lynch.’

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