The Father, the Sun and the Haunted Look: The Star Wars (Episodes IV, V, and VI)

This essay is an interdisciplinary endeavor bringing together film and philosophy by means of narratology and psychoanalysis. At stake are philosophical reflections on visuality and subject de/re-construction in films. In the case of the specific Star Wars films, this concerns Jean-Louis Baudry’s reflections on Plato’s allegory of the cave which played a formative role in film theory, as well as the possibility of its deconstruction by means of Derridian concepts. These concepts supplement and
specify psychoanalytically bent reflections on father/son relationships that govern the fabulas of the new Hollywood films such as the Star Wars series.

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