Böcker av Parveen Adams

Demonstrates that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation and shows how the issue of desire changes the way we can think of images and their effects.

Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's "Vertigo", the sexual aesthetics of Caravaggio, the artistic pen of Barthes, and how Cronenberg's film "Crash" functions as a sinthome.