![]() ![]() An idea of woman stands as lynch pin to the system it is her lack that produces the phallus as a symbolic presence, it is her desire to make good the lack that the phallus signifies. The paradox of phallocentrism in all its manifestations is that it depends on the image of the castrated woman to give order and meaning to its world. Psychoanalytic theory, is thus appropriated here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form. It is helpful to understand what the cinema has been, how its magic has worked in the past, while attempting a theory and a practice which will challenge this cinema of the past. ![]() It takes as starting point the way film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially established interpretation of sexual difference which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle. This paper intends to use psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him. ![]()
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