LAURA MULVEY VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE ource: Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, " Screen (1975); reprinted in Visual and Other Pleasures(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 14-26. A of psychon HIS PAPER INTENDS TO USE PSYCHOANALYSIS to discover where nd specta It is helpful to understand what the cinema has been, how its magic has worked in the of the pas eapon,demonstrating the way that it de pin to the sys desire to make good the lack that the phallus signifies. Recent writing psychoanalysis and the cinema has not sufficiently brought out the importance of th tation of the female form spea patriarchal unconscious is twofold: she firstly symbolises the castration threat by her real a penis and secondly thereby raises her child into the symbolic. Once this has been achieved an end. It do orld of law and ccept as a memory, which oscillates between memory of the bl her child into the ne of the father and the law, or else struggle to ke r child gmifier for the male othe bolic order in whie fantasies and obsessions through lingu mmand by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer, not maker, of meanin