Psychoanalysis is the analysis of the options and controls we choose in life
Ways of thinking
How we examine other objects
> Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasures & Narrative
> Hollywood films
> Heroes - male damsels in distress
> Women exist as a sexual object
scopophilea - the pleasure of looking at other bodies as objects
- Instinctive desire to look
Narcisstic identification
- For mulvey spectators identify with the male hero in narrative films
The mirror stage
- Projected nation of ‘ideal ego’ in image reflected
- Childs own body less perfect than reflection
Contradiction
1 - Scopophilia - sexual stimulation by sigh
2- Narcissistic identification with the image seen. Cinema thrives on this contradiction
Degas : Le Viol (The rape)
Intradiagetic, character image that gazes at the subject
Extradiagetic gaze - direct address to the viewer, the gaze of a person in an image looking atw us, more affecting
Intra - Defers our guil
Extra - Enhance our guilt
Computer games often use different forms of the gaze. The hitman series enable you to choose either an intra diagetic or a suture.
Conclusion: - different forms of the gaze evoke different structures of power
> We can objectify and identify
> Visual culture employs different forms of the gaze, to evoke structures of partriarchy
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