ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis as methodology and a way of thinking had a huge impact on film studies in the 1970s and 1980s. Love provides a difficulty, not to say embarrassment, for many contemporary Lacanian theorists too, who often disavow it completely. Psychoanalysis was forbidden in all communist countries, prohibited for its inherent emphasis on listening to an individual, thus granting her or him their voice, be it in private, and hence giving recognition to the importance of a private, intersubjective encounter. A relationship between the body and the speech was of course crucial at the outset of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis undercuts the value of autoethnography—or at least could potentially do so given the unconscious drives and desires.
