Tales of Transference: A Study of Psychoanalytic Thought in the Films of Woody Allen

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: B, University of Sheffield (School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics), language: English, abstract: The paper delivers a survey of American actor and director Woody Allen's cinematography. It reveals a preoccupation with the doctrine of psychoanalysis over the course of his entire thirty year artistic output, in the context of which the theory's various conceptual and methodological elements are debated. They are intertwined with narrative structure, character development and formation of dialogue, technical aspects as well as the nature of comedy versus tragedy as implicit in the question of the general purpose of art.