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- Publisher
- Addleton Academic Publishers
- Copyright
- © 2009 Addleton Academic Publishers
- ISSN
- 2327-5707
- eISSN
- 2473-6562
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Abstract
Inspired by the accidental impression of a photograph from Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida on a negative left (forgotten) inside the book, this article dwells on the idea of ‘latency’ in photographic and psychological writings. Taking Barthes’s image analysis as a starting point we show how it was influenced by Freud’s notion of ‘differed action’ and traumatic memory. As a ‘state of the art’ imaging technique photography informed early scientific research on memory and perception; Freud used the photographic metaphor to represent the unconscious. Nevertheless, Barthes took up the idea of latent image and developed it into a narrative technique for rendering the subjective and traumatic substrate of photographic perception. Latent image; differed action; trauma; photographic metaphor; Barthes; Freud; Camera Lucida
Journal
Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity – Addleton Academic Publishers
Published: Jan 1, 2020