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In the Introduction to his book, Andrea Sabbadini shows his twofold intention: on the one hand, to provide a series of original interpretations of certain films from the perspective of the analyst practitioner, thus enriching film theory, and on the other hand, to illustrate through certain films part of the psychoanalytic thinking and work. The choice of films was arbitrary, yet the book is structured on clear psychoanalytic themes, namely six.
Throughout the book, we see how the author provides parenthesis, offering general considerations that go beyond the actual topic and use the film as if to retrieve analytical thinking, while maintaing a close relationship between psychoanalysis and film. I'll start with them.
The association of dream-work and film, referring to Otto Rank (p. 10), reappears in the commentary on the film Pan's Labyrinth , with the addition that the film is not a dream, yet that both “share a facility for integrating within their narratives different layers of external reality and inner experiences” (p. 52). I confess from the beginning that, throughout the book, although the author warned us that he will proceed in such a way, I