FILMICON: Journal of Greek Film Studies ISSUE 4, December 2017 83 The Crisis of Gender Identity in the Greek Film Noir: Sexuality, Paranoia and the Unconscious in Efialtis/Nightmare (1961) and O Ergenis/The Bachelor (1997) Nikitas Fessas University of Ghent Yvonne Kosma American College of Thessaloniki ABSTRACT This article uses Lacanian psychoanalytic terminology and a feminist psychoanalytic theoretical framework to analyze the Greek film noirs Efialtis/Nightmare (Erricos Andreou 1961), and O ergenis/The Bachelor (Nikos Panayotopoulos, 1997). While acknowledging both the differences and the similarities between the corresponding sociopolitical and cultural contexts of two films produced during two distinct, but crucial periods in modern Greek history, we argue that both noir texts contain instances (at the level of both form and content) that can be read as potentially subversive in the particular ways they represent gender and sexuality, which they link to paranoia and psychosis. KEYWORDS film noir gender Greek cinema neo-noir psychoanalysis sexuality