ABSTRACT
The author interested in film and the reaction that film invokes through emotional and empathic engagement from, and with, audiences. This book will both identify and critically discuss the literature currently available to the film student regarding applications of analytical psychology to film, with a view to re-establishing the value of film theory as a 'per-spective statement' in Jungian film scholarship. However, similar to the example of Jung and Merleau-Ponty on materiality, the languages spoken by film studies and analytical psychology are very different, and at times are contradictory a further reflection of mutual suspicion, mobilizing the different prejudices associated with each tradition. The psychoanalyst Wolfgang Giegrich has written several articles on and around this subject, the most notable of which is his essay Jung's Betrayal of his Truth', addressing Jung's wholesale adoption of Kant's empiricism, and simultaneous rejection of Hegel.
