ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reviews literature pertaining to cinema and psychoanalysis post-1968. It looks at Lacan’s four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis—the unconscious, repetition, transference and drive—and mapped out ways in which these concepts might also be present in documentary filmmaking, focusing in particular on the importance of transference. The book investigates the moment of ‘interpellation’ in the documentary project. It looks at the mysterious figure of the filmmaker through Kieslowski’s film Camera Buff. The book discusses the interrogation of the ethics of the encounter through a reflection of what it might mean to see a pretend ‘autobiography’ of oneself prepared by the filmmaker.
