ABSTRACT
This chapter continues to explore the notion of intersubjectivity as a dynamic element of emotional experience with the moving image. It touches on Lacanian discussions regarding the function of metaphor to show how Bion's ideas both connect to and depart from classical psychoanalytic approaches, advancing the function of the field metaphor as an experience of dreaming. The chapter briefly reiterates that for Bion, dreaming is the founding principle of mental functioning that enables lived experience to be processed as emotional experience. It was through a range of metaphors that Bion outlined and established his theory of thinking. The chapter considers the construct of the 'embedded spectator' as a way to illuminate the intersubjective aesthetic experience of cinema as a dreaming. The concept of the embedded spectator, becomes ineffective if it aligns too closely with specific technology, circumstance, or experience.
