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TERM AND TRANSLATION

mental image

image mentalemental image

心智 emphasizes Cinema 1's problem-field: images take relations, symbolic acts, and intellectual feelings as objects of thought rather than transferring a character's private psychology onto the screen. 心理 narrows the range, while 精神 can import senses of esprit or Geist, so both remain search variants.

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Atlas working translation

心智—影像

French term
image mentale
English term
mental image
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Variants and search terms

  • 心智影像Simplified record
  • 心理—影像Simplified record
  • 心理影像Simplified record
  • 精神—影像Simplified record
  • 精神影像Simplified record
  • 思维—影像Simplified record
  • 心智—影像Traditional record
  • 思維—影像Traditional record
  • mental-imageCommon / non-Chinese record
  • mental imageCommon / non-Chinese record
  • image mentaleCommon / non-Chinese record
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Conceptual boundary

The mental image is not a catch-all for point-of-view shots, inner monologue, or psychological subject matter. Thirdness finds its most adequate cinematic representation in relation; relation is not the grammatical subject of that claim. The atlas separates mental-image and relation-image only as reading interfaces for a problem-field and its Hitchcockian realization through Thirdness. It does not claim parallel source-level ranks or place recollection- and dream-images beneath the former.

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Sources and translations

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    Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement, Minuit, 1983

    French primary text and terminological baseline.

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    《电影1：运动—影像》，谢强、马月译，湖南美术出版社，2016

    Published Mainland Chinese translation documenting established forms and edition differences.

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    《電影 I：運動—影像》，黃建宏译，远流，2003

    Traditional Chinese volume I; ISBN 9789573250180. Pagination applies to this edition only.

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  4. 04
    The Deleuze Seminars, Purdue University

    Seminar transcripts and translations; citations identify lecture, date, and language version.

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  5. 05
    Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1

    Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.

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Related concepts and terms