Reparation and the empathic other: Christian Petzold’s Wolfsburg ralf zwiebel

As a specific psychoanalytic way of approaching the understanding of a film, Gerhard Schneider proposed to consider it as a ‘quasi-person’. In this way one develops a ‘quasi-personal’ relationship to the film that induces different emotional-cognitive reactions, related especially to the strangeness, the unknown and the mystery of the Other.