Lacan and Contemporary Film

Preface ix Frances L. Restuccia, Series Editor Introduction: Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Film Theory xi Todd McGowan and Sheila Kunkle 1. Visions and Numbers: Aronofshy's π and the Primordial Signifier 1(28) Paul Eisenstein 2. The Anxiety of Love Letters 29(18) Renata Salecl 3. Between the Two Fears 47(36) Juliet Flower MacCannell 4. Beauty's Eye: Erotic Masques of the Death Drive in Eyes Wide Shut 83(28) Mark Pizzato 5. Romancing the Capital: Choice, Love, and Contradiction in The Family Man and Memento 111(34) Anna Kornbluh 6. Fighting Our Fantasies: Dark City and the Politics of Psychoanalysis 145(28) Todd McGowan 7. An Ethical Plea for Lies and Masochism 173(14) Slavoj Žižek 8. Impossible Love in Breaking the Waves: Mystifying Hysteria 187(22) Frances L. Restuccia 9. Jane Campion's Jouissance: Holy Smoke and Feminist Film Theory 209(24) Hilary Neroni Index 233