Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently the affective life of people, their intimacy and even the analytic room. The contributors, all practising psychoanalysts, analyse the potential surprising transformation the human relationships are going across, including psychoanalysis.

Andrea Sabbadini is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society who works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is also a former Trustee of the Freud Museum, a Lecturer at UCL, a Consultant to the IPA Committee on Psychoanalysis and Culture, and the director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. He has written many articles, is the editor of several books, and the author of Boundaries and Bridges: Perspectives on Time and Space in Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2014) and Moving Images: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film (Routledge, 2014). Ilany Kogan is a Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She works as a teacher and supervisor at the Generatia Center, Bucharest, Romania, and in Germany, including Munich and Aachen. For many years, she worked extensively with Holocaust survivors' offspring, and has published papers and books on this topic. She was awarded the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide (2005). She received the Sigourney Award 2016. Paola Golinelli is a Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. She works in private practice in Bologna. She was Consultant of the EPFF (European Psychoanalytic Film Festival) from 2000 to 2014, Chair of the Croatian Sponsoring Committee from 2003 to 2014 and is currently chair of the Liaison Committee of the Croatian Psychoanalytic Society. She was a Member of the IPA "Psychoanalysis and Culture Committee" from 2005 to 2009, now consultant of the same Committee.

Series editor's foreword - Gabriela Legoreta Preface - Glen O. Gabbard Chapter 1 Intimacy in a virtual world - Andrea Sabbadini Chapter 2 Can your next analyst be a computer? Psychoanalysis in the digital era - Ilany Kogan Chapter 3 Love and analysis in a virtual world: the perverse side: a psychoanalytic perspective on Her by Spike Jonze - Paola Golinelli Chapter 4 Pornography as intimacy blocker - Robert Schonberger Chapter 5 Virtual objects, virtual grief: reflections on Black Mirror - Dana Amir Chapter 6 From illusion to creative act: a possible interpretation of Her - Donatella Lisciotto Chapter 7 The virtual dimension in love affairs and therapeutic relationships: love and death in Giuseppe Tornatore's films - Nicolino Rossi Chapter 8 Customising the object: sine osychoanalytic reflections on Spike Jonze's Her - Alessandra Lemma Chapter 9 Her: The future of a desire - Simonetta Diena Chapter 10 Love your echo: virtual others and the modern Narcissus - Andreas Hamburger Chapter 11 'I don' t know, what I feel. Is it love?' - Jana Burgerova Chapter 12 Her: the object in the virtual world - Maria Z. Areu Crespo Chapter 13 The evaporated body: a dream, a limit, or a possibility? - Rossella Valdrè