Cinematic logic and the function of the cut

It is almost as hackneyed as it is contentious to bring up the connection between cinema and psychoanalysis today: to point to their simultaneous birth at the end of the nineteenth century (as if this provided evidence of some primitive kinship); to call attention to their mutual fascination (obsession?) with all things 'Oedipal;' to highlight their shared concern with questions of identification, of ego-ideals and ideal-egos (as well as processes of signification and meaning-production in general). Simply, the correlation has become" to employ one of Freud's favored terms" thoroughly overdetermined, with parallels and associations (as well as separations and distinctions) too numerous to account for.