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‘When I think about film I feel it. When I handle film I see it’.
There has been a resurgence and plethora of books on an analytic approach to film published in the last decade, but Embodied Encounters is perhaps unique in that it focuses on the visceral experience of film and also on the unconscious processes that can be amplified and expressed through it. This book emerged out of a symposium at the Freud Museum in 2014 to launch the editor's first monograph Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2013) and Luke Hockley's book Somatic Cinema (2014). The symposium drew such a breadth of interest that it became a springboard for a wider project, in Piotrowska's words to reclaim psychoanalysis for film theory and