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Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature

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A new way to understand the human longing for stories, informed by both neuroscience and psychoanalytic theory.

In this book, Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds.


Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images bridge emotional respo...