Main description:

International contributors representing both practicing psychoanalysts and film scholars.
Authors assess individual films in depth, compare multiple films, and focus on Bergman's life and work in a cultural context.
First collection to examine Bergman's work through a Lacanian lens.
Includes work on key films including Persona and The Silence.

Contents:

Dedication

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: Cinema: The Pervert's Chamber

Mary Wild

Introduction

Vanessa Sinclair

Chapter 1: The People Eaters are Having a Great Feast: Some Reflections on Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf

Carl Abrahamsson

Chapter 2: The Cinematic Optical Unconscious of Bergman's Persona

Wayne Wapeemukwa

Chapter 3: Fanny and Alexander, Hamlet, and the Ethical Unconscious

Robert Samuels

Chapter 4: Island Earth: Bergman, Brahe, and the Many Suns

Patrick Scanlon

Chapter 5: The Truth about The Silence: Ingmar Bergman's Masterpiece about the World

Peter Jansson

Chapter 6: Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Bergman's Cries and Whispers

Andrea Sabbadini

Chapter 7: The Seventh Seal: Bergman and the Frenchmen

S. Alfonso Williams

Chapter 8: Serpentine Conceptual Autophagia: Lesbian Contrapuntal Dialectics in Persona and The Silence

Alireza Taheri

Chapter 9: The Father(s) in Moses and Monotheism and Fanny and Alexander: A Closer Look at Isak Jacobi, the Jewish Magical Savior

Elisabeth Punzi

Chapter 10: Prolegomena to Persona: As Existential Psychoanalysis

Walter A. Davis

Chapter 11: Beyond Silence: On the Absence of God in the Films of Ingmar Bergman

Pablo Lerner