Discuss the use of psychoanalytic concepts of identification, fetishism, voyeurism and narcissism to cinema with detailed reference to at lease one film. Film: Basic Instinct

Psychoanalysis and film have long encountered each other since both were born around the same time. It was in 1896 that Freud first used the term psychoanalysis only a year after the first screening of the Lumiere films in the Grande Café. A number of people have greatly influenced film theory using psychoanalysis including Mulvey and Lacan whose theories shall be explored in this essay. There are a number of basic Freudian ideas …showed first 75 words of 3232 total…

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