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Andreas Jacke

Experiencing Fear and Angst - Their Psychoanalytic Meaning and Interpretation through the Theoretical Reception of Contemporary Fictionary Films

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The project aims at classifying, interpreting and explaining the diverse forms of fear (angst) as provided in contemporary fictional film by introducing, analyzing and arguing  a sample of philosophical and psychoanalytical theories of fear. It is also intended to take into account some of the political aspects of the genesis of fear by using theoretical insights of Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin. Fear as a disruption of  a healthy relation towards the external world is a blockade  of the relation to other human beings. But according to Jacques Derrida there is no meeting with others without fear. This quasi-paradoxical relation will also be taken into account.

As far as psychonalytical models are taken into account, the focus will lie on Fritz Riemanns standard work Grundformen der Angst (1961). It will function as a basic text to introduce and discuss four basic types of personality (schizoid, depressive, anancastic, hysteric) with regard to their related froms of fear.

With support of these different approaches, all aiming at differentiating presentations of the reasons and causes of fear, the emotional settings in cinematographic reception concerning fear will be analyzed, classified and explained. The getting off ground hypothesis is that fear in  films is motivated by very different structures, different genres and narrative elements of and in films are narrowly correlated with the different forms of fear as presented in the theories. The following seven correlations are hypothesized:

  1. anancastic fear (comedy)
  2. hysterical fear (musical and dance)
  3. traumatic fear (thriller)
  4. paranoid  fear (action and thrill, science fiction)
  5. schizoid fear (horror and mindgame, fantasy)
  6. depressive  fear (apocalyptica / melodrama)
  7. additional psychoanalytical categories of fear (love films, western, war movies et al.)

One of the basic aims is to show the full spectrum of the possible ways of reception by spectators with regard to fear. What are the structures of meaning associated analogously with the generation of fear and how are these psychoanalytically  intepretable via the narrative patterns of the films? With the philosophical layer there is a possibilty to evaluate how fear  is used and how it operates. Is it an opener to the other human being or is it an obstacle to  or a darkening  of the horizon of  experience?  Has it, e.g., racist, sexist or totalitarian backgrounds or does the experience of fear open up new fields of experience by confrinting the spectator with something new, yet unknown to him/her?

Andreas Jacke, geb. 1966, nach seiner Ausbildung als Erzieher studierte er an der FU Berlin Filmwissenschaft und Philosophie. 1996 Magister über Walter Benjamin und Carl Schmitt, 2002 Promotion über »Marilyn Monroe und die Psychoanalyse«. Jacke arbeitet seit den 1980er Jahren immer wieder als Filmemacher und realisiert zahlreiche Low-Budget-Filme mit ausgebildeten Schauspielern und professionellen Kameraleuten. Seit 2003 tritt er auch als professioneller Darsteller in internationalen Werbefilmen auf. Ferner nahm er einige prämierte Hörspiele auf. Er schrieb zahlreiche Bücher zu Film, Psychoanalyse und Philosophie über Marilyn Monroe (2005), Stanley Kubrick (2009), Roman Polanski (2010), David Bowie (2011) und eine Filmtheorie mit Thesen von Walter Benjamin (2013) außerdem ein Buch über Derrida: Krisenrezeption oder was Sie schon immer über Lars von Trier wissen wollten, aber bisher Jacques Derrida nicht zu fragen wagten (2014). Im Oktober 2015 erschien seine neues Buch „Mein Name ist Bond, James Bond“ im Psychosozial-Verlag. Jacke hat ein Forschungsprojekt mit dem Titel Die psychoanalytische (Be-)Deutung der Angsterfahrung innerhalb der Spielfilmrezeption des Gegenwartskinos bei der DFG beantragt. Er hält regelmäßig Vorträge an der Urania-Berlin und an psychoanalytischen Instituten. Er hatte mehrer Lehraufträge über Film und Ethik an der Hochschule Darmstadt.

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