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Anyone can feel similar things while either watching a film or listening to a patient if he/she is practicing psychoanalysis. They can both lead the person to a universe of transference and counter - transference. But there is a difference; the spectator has no obligation to think about “what is going on here?” where as the psychoanalyst has to.
Different things can be felt about films, just as different feelings can be experienced about patients. For instance, some films can make you feel dizzy, as if you were hanging on a kind of jelly. Some psychotic patients can arouse similar feelings in the analyst. With a borderline patient, the analyst can feel pain, for example on his/her arm because the patient is expressing how he/she gives harm to his/her own arm. It is the same feeling while the spectator watches some kind of movies. On the contrary, with a neurotic patient, there would be no feeling like a jelly or aching body parts. The feelings correspond more to reality, they are more measured, it would be just like watching a movie again. Films have no psychical life but people who make films have.