Helen Rollins: Cinema and Psychoanalysis

Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the forthcoming book Psychocinema. In this episode, we discuss film theory, lack, obect a, Lacan's gaze, the divided self, Hegelian contradiction, ideology, capitalism and its discontents. You can find more of Helen's work at https://helenrollins.com/ and https://helenrollins.substack.com/ God Isn't Ready for Me Yet: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stevepieters/god-isnt-ready-for-me-yet Helen's book: https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/Psychocinema-p-9781509561148 RSam Podcast #45 --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Available on other platforms at https://link.chtbl.com/PDBAf9Zd {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://x.com/trsam97 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} Psychoanalysis playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKrdfBwmut9q9US2HlDreOo0i&si=x3c-CbSSWTaY27nv https://thedangerousmaybe.medium.com/lacans-concept-of-the-object-cause-of-desire-objet-petit-a-bd17b8f84e69 https://youtu.be/GXOcdFoQPXM?si=6DsavQ1ALxRMbjwP https://youtu.be/vGQkqcJc7m8?si=S4vD1gXg50goos6B --------------------------------------- If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ --------------------------------------- Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.