Risky Viewing and Risky Method?: Psychoanalysis, Method and Defended Viewing

Abstract

Previous chapters have employed psychoanalytic concepts and ideas to understand identification and subjective engagement with viewing. As many researchers working psychosocially have embraced the use of psychoanalysis to inform research design and analysis, it is important to ask how these developments and observations translate in practice. Given that this book is a study in the psychosocial, this chapter will concentrate on the use of psychoanalysis and method. It will focus specifically on the idea introduced in Chapter 2 of researcher subjectivity and unconscious communication as resource and will explore this through an account of the unconscious dynamics of a research relationship.