Media and the Inner World

This anthology offers unique, psycho-cultural perspectives on media, popular culture and emotion, as developed through the AHRC research network, 'Media and the Inner World'. Applying insights from the spheres of academic scholarship and clinical experience, the psycho-cultural approach of this book demonstrates the usefulness of psychoanalysis for nuanced approaches to media and cultural analysis. The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between media and the inner world by focusing on the inter-relationships between particular emotional themes and media contexts, ranging from fantasies of sporting ritual to the emotional work of cinema, the dynamics of digital narcissism and the relationship between paranoia and television. The book will be useful for students in Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies and Psychosocial Studies. It will also be of interest to people in professional training and practice in psychotherapeutic organisations and to professionals involved in the culture and media industries.

Caroline Bainbridge is Reader in Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton in London, UK. With Candida Yates, she is a Director of the Media and the Inner World network (www.miwnet.org), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Caroline is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice and A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious and Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-cultural Perspectives. She has also published work on cinema, psychoanalysis, popular culture and emotion in a number of academic journals including Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Screen. Most recently, she has become Editor of the journal, Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics and a series editor of a newly inaugurated monograph series on the theme of 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture'.

Candida Yates is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK, and is a Director, along with Caroline Bainbridge, of the Media and the Inner World network (www.miwnet.org), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has published widely on the themes of popular culture, psychoanalysis and identity. She is co-editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and co-editor of a monograph series on 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture'. Her publications include Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema, Culture and The Unconscious, Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives and Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Approaches.

Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture; Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates
PART I: PSYCHO-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SPORT
1. 'Abide With Me': Mediatised Football And Collectivised Mourning; Barry Richards
2. Political Sport and The Sport of Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of Play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and The London 2012 Olympic Games; Candida Yates
PART II: THE EMOTIONAL WORK OF CINEMA
3. 'Cinematic Screaming' or 'All About My Mother': Lars von Trier's Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter; Caroline Bainbridge
4. Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching Tool; Judith Edwards
5. The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences of das Unheimlich and Estranged Body States in The Others (Alejandro Amenàbar, 2001); Nicola Diamond
PART III: TELEVISION AND PARANOIA
6. Reflections on Television and Paranoia; Karen Ainsbury
7. Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia; Hugh Ortega Breton
8. 'Programmes For People Who Are Paranoid About The Way They Look': Thoughts On Paranoia, Recognition, Mirrors and Makeover Television; Jo Whitehouse-Hart
PART IV: SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL NARCISSISM
9. The Ultimate Private/Public Partnership: The Extensions of the Self in the World of the Virtual Gaze; Aaron Balick
10. Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Room; Jay Watts
11. Playing and Pathology: Considering Social Media as 'Secondary Transitional Objects'; Matt Hills