Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh

"""The book offers a rare combination of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in describing what we do when view a film. The viewer emerges as the anxiously intimate spectator without whose responses cinema could not exist. Interweaving his theorization with a rich offering of film analyses, the author is inviting us to test our own cinematic experience against the book's interpretations."" --Horst Ruthrof, Emeritus Professor FAHA FICI, Murdoch University, Australia ""In this scintillating work, Patrick Fuery argues that film creates a new ego and cinema becomes not simply a different art form but an entirely new way of being, experiencing, and knowing. The cinema ego is sensuous and sentient. It creates new object relations and invites different terms - ""the projected familiar,"" ""introjected defamiliarization"" that open different intellectual and emotional vistas. ""To be a film spectator,"" he writes, ""is to take up an othered consciousness,"" and this brave and brilliant book provides its readers with the conceptual tools to engage this new otherness. A work for all of us to read."" --Christopher Bollas, Psychoanalyst and Independent Scholar, USA ""An extraordinary book and compulsory reading for all those interested in the visual history of the human body."" --Javier Moscoso, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, and author of Pain: A Cultural History (2012)"