Psychoanalysis is a relationship. Cinema is a relationship. What is tennis? Commentary on the film Challengers
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It took Luca Guadagnino's 'Challengers,' written with screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, for this statement to become clear in me, with full awareness.
Yet, I have known and frequented the sport for a long time, even before cinema and psychoanalysis. However, the latter two, whose common birth date attributed to 1895 makes them almost twins, have always seemed to me a prime example of relationality, even before the so-called 'relational turn' officially certified it in the 1970s and 1980s for psychoanalysis. In the same way, cinema can be said to be by its essence relational.[...]
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