Bisexuality, Neurosis, and Fantasies of the Caribbean in Ansikte mot ansikte (Face to Face)

This chapter focuses on three aspects of Ansikte mot ansikte 's engagement with bisexuality: the bisexual nature of Jenny's encounters with psychological turmoil; the bisexuality of the neurotic Tomas; and the desires of Tomas to relocate to – the Caribbean, a place they imagine to be a bisexual paradise. Across Ansikte mot ansikte 's engagements with bisexuality, we can discern a recurrent struggle in which figures come into conflict with the rules of social reality –which stipulate one be either heterosexual or homosexual –and look, instead, to unreality, to fantasy, as a means of imagining bisexual possibility. The amenability of art cinema to bisexuality has been theorized evocatively by scholars such as Pramaggiore and Maria San Filippo. considers Ansikte mot ansikte in relation to psychoanalytic accounts of bisexuality and neurosis, particularly in the work of Sigmund Freud.