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In his essay “Identification, Mirror” and “The passion for Perceiving”, an excerpt from the book The Imaginary Signifier, Christian Metz draws on the works of spectatorship theorists such as Jean-Louis Baudry and expands the notion of the cinematic apparatus to encompass a more general view of the “imaginary signifier” and its institutional context. Metz attempts, through the use of psychoanalysis, to discover an original grounding event that would systematically explain the nature of the film spectator. Al
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