Fiction in Documentary Film: A Psychoanalytic Exploration

Fiction in Documentary Film explores the use of fictional elements in contemporary documentaries about personal trauma.

Bruce Eadie argues that the documentary-making process can be a dynamic, therapeutic process, which bears comparison to the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. Traumas rooted in the past are reactivated in on-screen relationships, and fictions bring representational content to otherwise unrepresented aspects of traumatic experience. With reference to Freud, Winnicott, Bion...