Introduction : Lacanian psychoanalysis in film theory / Todd McGowan and Sheila Kunkle -- Visions and numbers : Aronofsky's [Pi] and the primordial signifier / Paul Eisenstein -- The anxiety of love letters / Renata Salecl -- Between the two fears / Juliet Flower MacCannell -- Beauty's eye : erotic masques of the death drive in Eyes wide shut / Mark Pizzato -- Romancing the capital : choice, love, and contradiction in The family man and Memento / Anna Kornbluh -- Fighting our fantasies : Dark city and the politics of psychoanalysis / Todd McGowan -- An ethical plea for lies and masochism / Slavoj Žižek -- Impossible love in Breaking the waves : mystifying hysteria / Frances L. Restuccia -- Jane Campion's Joissance : holy smoke and feminist film theory / Hilary Neroni