Cronenburg_and_Psychoanalytic_Theory

Cronenburg and Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalysis, as stemmed from Freud, brings the “unconscious” to the foreground of importance, adding value to those thoughts, feelings, etcetera, that are usually repressed. Film, as a mass entertainment, serves as a way for an audience to “experience” situations that they do not always have the chance to experience, but, to do so, relies on somehow pulling the viewer in so that they do not necessarily realise, while they are watching, that they are watching a film, but, instead, feel as if they are the one caught up in the action of the piece. So, then, the filmmaker’s job is to prompt this experience for the audience and can do so by positioning the viewer to feel as if they, themselves, are witnessing the events in the film. How can a viewer so believe in a film when they, all the time, know that the world and story of the film is fiction and fantasy' The power of cinema comes in its power to duplicate the real world, the world we know. Cinema is able to show us the world we live our lives in, but it goes beyond that; it is also capable of manipulation- unlike many other arts, which film, world, viewer, psychoanalytic, even, manipulation, theory, relation, reality, real, one, life, experience, character, part, interest, gaze, crash, between, watching, seems, screen, rather, point, must, films, fact, way, take, story, simply, relate, realise, psychoanalysis, inhabit, human, feel, fantasy, expression, cultural, creed, cinema, cannot, body, been, because, based, apparatus, while, thus