ABSTRACT
Anomalisa exemplifies imitation as a typology of relational distance within post-cinematic media replicating specific cinematic language in a more reflexive way than its traditional stop-motion counterparts. Post-cinematic animation has not radically departed from form when compared to traditional 2D cel-animation, or 3D computer animation. The significance of C. G. Jung’s child archetype, as an interpretive structure, is that it identifies the processes and functionality of doubling within post-cinematic media through the techniques of imitation and supplementarity. Jung first establishes the child archetype as a link with the past; suggesting doubling is a continual process throughout life. The scholarship on the child in cinema is rich and rewarding. Vivian Sobchack has written on the integration and oscillation between perceptive and expressive technologies, where the lived body experience has not simply altered to a post-cinematic landscape but has, via the virtual, projected body within it.
