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The concepts of
psychoanalysis have been applied to
films in various ways. However, the 1970s and 1980s saw the development of theory that took concepts developed by the French psychoanalyst and writer
Jacques Lacan and applied them to the experience of watching a film.
The film viewer is seen as the subject of a "
gaze" that's largely "constructed" by the film itself, where what is on screen becomes the object of that subject's desire.
The viewing subject may be offered particular identifications (usually with a leading male character) from which to watch. The theory stresses the subject's longing for a completeness which the film may appear to offer through identification with an image; in fact, according to Lacanian
theory, identification with the image is never anything but an illusion and the subject is always split simply by virtue of coming into existence.
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