ABSTRACT

This essay discusses the relationship between film and psychological trauma from the perspective of the history of science. It examines how the psychological sciences were influenced by image technology, primarily after the two world wars. Taking a closer look at the development of film production and mental imagery experiments as cultural and scientific institutions, this essay examines the challenges psychologists began to face when the paradigm of the trauma film was established in the pursuit of positivist evidence informed by mechanical objectivity. Over the past century, psychological trauma have been explained through the lens of psychiatric sciences and literary critics. However, they were not evenly emphasized and experimental psychology became the mainstream institution to manage trauma in clinical settings. This essay argues that explanations of trauma in the past century have been interdisciplinary. The limitations of trauma-related brain sciences could be ameliorated by re-emphasizing narratives explored in films produced for artistic or moral, rather than scientific, purposes.

摘要

本文从科学史的角度探讨电影与心理创伤的关系。它考察了心理科学如何受到图像技术的影响，主要是在两次世界大战之后。仔细研究电影制作和心理意象实验作为文化和科学机构的发展，本文探讨了当创伤电影的范式建立时心理学家开始面临的挑战，以寻求机械客观性提供的实证证据。在过去的一个世纪里，心理创伤已经通过精神病学和文学评论家的视角来解释. 然而，它们并没有得到一致的强调，实验心理学成为在临床环境中管理创伤的主流机构。本文认为，过去一个世纪对创伤的解释是跨学科的。通过重新强调为艺术或道德而非科学目的制作的电影中探索的叙事，可以改善与创伤相关的脑科学的局限性。