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Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature

Name: Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
ISBN: 9780253020994

By
- Alistair Fox
Publisher
- Indiana University Press

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Language: English
Format
Category: Non-Fiction

A new way to understand the human longing for stories, informed by both neuroscience and psychoanalytic theory.

In this book, Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds.

Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images bridge emotional response with the cognitive side of the brain. In a radical move to link the neurosciences with psychoanalysis, Fox foregrounds the interpretive experience as a way to reach personal emotional equilibrium by working through autobiographical issues within a fictive form.

Release date

Ebook: 21 March 2016