THE IMAGINARY SIGNIFIER

Acknowledgements = ix PART I THE IMAGINARY SIGNIFIER = 1 1 The Imaginary and the ‘Good Object’ in the Cinema and in the Theory of the Cinema = 3 ‘Going to the cinema ’ = 6 ‘Talking about the cinema ’ = 9 ‘Loving the cinema’ = 14 2 The Investigator’s Imaginary = 17 Psychoanalysis, linguistics, history = 17 Freudian psychoanalysis and other psychoanalyses = 21 Various kinds of psychoanalytic study of the cinema = 25 Psychoanalysis of the film script = 27 Psychoanalysis of the textual system = 32 Psychoanalysis of the cinema-signifier = 33 The major regimes of the signifier = 37 3 Identification, Mirror = 42 Perception, imaginary = 42 The all-perceiving subject = 45 Identification with the camera = 49 On the idealistic theory of the cinema = 52 On some sub-codes of identification = 54 ‘Seeing a film’ = 56 4 The Passion for Perceiving = 58 The scopic regime of the cinema = 61 Theatre fiction, cinema fiction = 66 5 Disavowal, Fetishism = 69 Structures of belief = 71 The cinema as technique = 74 Fetish and frame = 77 ‘Theorise’, he says ... (Provisional Conclusion) = 79 Notes and References to Part I = 81 PART II STORY/DISCOURSE (A NOTE ON TWO KINDS OF VOYEURISM) = 89 Notes and References to Part II = 98 PART III THE FICTION FILM AND ITS SPECTATOR: A METAPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY = 99 6 Film and Dream: the Knowledge of the Subject = 101 7 Film and Dream: Perception and Hallucination = 109 8 Film and Dream: Degrees of Secondarisation = 120 9 Film and Phantasy = 129 10 The Filmic Visée = 138 Notes and References to Part III = 143 PART IV METAPHOR/METONYMY, OR THE IMAGINARY REFERENT = 149 11 ‘Primary’Figure,‘Secondary’Figure = 154 On ‘worn’figures = 156 Figural, linguistic: the figure embedded in the‘literal meaning’ = 158 On emergent figures = 161 The metalinguistic illusion = 163 12 ‘Small-scale’ Figures, ‘Large-scale’ Figures = 168 Status and List = 171 13 Rhetoric and Linguistics: Jakobson’s Contribution = 174 14 Referential, Discursive = 183 Intersections of the referential and the discursive = 186 Figure and theme = 191 Editing, the superimposition and the close-up = 193 15 Metaphor/Metonymy: a Dissymmetrical Symmetry = 197 From metonymy to metaphor = 199 From metaphor to metonymy? = 201 On the ‘distribution’ of metaphor and metonymy = 203 16 Figure and Substitution = 207 17 The Problem of the Word = 212 Figure/trope = 213 The rhetorical and the iconic = 217 The ‘isolating’ nature of the word = 222 18 Force and Meaning = 229 19 Condensation = 235 Condensation in the language system = 236 Short-circuit, short circuit = 240 Condensation-metonymy = 242 20 From the ‘Dream-work’ to the ‘Primary Process’ = 245 21 ‘Censorship’: Barrier or Deviation? = 253 Uncensored marks of censorship = 254 Getting past or not getting past: the gap between the conscious and the unconscious = 256 Primary/secondary: refraction = 260 Conflict, compromise, degrees = 263 22 Displacement = 266 Meaning as transit, meaning as encounter = 267 Displacement-metaphor = 270 23 Crossings and Interweavings in Film: the Lap-dissolve as an Example of a Figuration = 274 24 Condensations and Displacements of the Signifier = 281 On the notion of the ‘operation of the signifier’ = 282 Condensation/metaphor, displacement/metonymy: overspill = 286 The spilling over of the image = 289 25 Paradigm/Syntagm in the Text of the Cure = 293 Notes and References to Part IV = 298 Index = 315

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