作为经验论与唯理论竞争此消彼长的又一案例，精神分析电影理论一方面在后理论的重建格局中逐渐被边缘化，被看作“过时”的理论；另一方面，随着后拉康派电影理论和神经精神分析的崛起，以及意识形态批评的需要，精神分析电影理论仍是电影研究中萦绕不散的幽灵。解析精神分析电影研究所面临的现实困境及成因，进而探讨精神分析本身作为方法存在的问题，可对精神分析电影理论的发展前景作出更客观的评估

As a case of competing empiricism and rationalism, psychoanalysis oriented film theory has gradual ly been marginalized in the post theoretical reconstruction pattern and has become an ″isolated″ theory. With the rise of post Lacanian film theory and neuropsychoanalysis, and the need for ideological criticism, it is still a haunting ghost in film research. By analyzing the realistic dilemmas and causes of the psychoanalysis oriented film theory re search, and by further exploring the issue of psychoanalytic theory itself as a method, it can make a more objective assessment of the prospects for the development of psychoanalysis oriented film theory.