Author Archive for: ‘Jean Deprun’

Cinema and identification

Translation by Annabelle J. de Croÿ Introduction by Harriet Margolis Uploaded 16 April 1999 | Modified 20 April 1999 This article first appeared in Revue international de filmologie 1.1 (Juillet-Août 1947): 36-38. The religious function of cinema If ethics is the opposite of religion, as labour is of talent, appropriation is of gift, then cinema will be to sport what religion is to ethics. …

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Cinema and transference

Translation by Annabelle J. de Croÿ Introduction by Harriet Margolis Uploaded 16 April 1999 | Modified 20 April 1999 Neurosis, blockage, projection “If you cannot love me,” says the naïve lover, “at least help me to cure myself.” And he was never more ill. “Flee me,” replies the one he loves. But how to flee when one is not yet cured? The …

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