Rêve versus Cauchemar. Le problème de la réalité dans le film
Dream versus Nightmare. The Problem of Reality in Movies

Summary/Abstract: The paper starts with the psychoanalytic Lacanian difference between Real and reality, to redefine the relations between reality itself, as a real image, and the Imaginary. It insists on the inversion of the relations between Knowledge and the Subject, which Lacan analyzes in Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis, and clarifies the role of Cartesian doubt as a symptom in the constitution of the modern subject. The division of knowledge between the signifier and the signified thus explains the function of the dream, but also the limits of this function in the particular case of the nightmare, as the return of the Symbolic in the Real.

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