FROM MAGIC LANTERNS TO THE VISUAL COVERING OF THE EGO

To resolve the enigma of visual perception, the author offers the analogical model of the cinema and a concept of the ''visual covering of the ego''. His theoretical elaboration is entirely presented and illustrated with references to the effects of cinema and photography on our psyche. The author thereby shows that a ''hallucinatory quantum'' affects all visual perception. He describes the visual covering as a reflexive instinctual trajectory in a double loop, based on a ''negative hallucinatory screen'', born of the negative hallucination of the mother. He refers to the consequences of the inconsistencies of visual content. The author then contrasts the ''hallucinatory'', or victory of the psyche, with the ''operational'', or triumph of the real, and associates final ascendancy to ''perceptive constancy''. He describes ''screen-figurations'' as compromise formations.