Enjoyed Anthony Hopkin’s performance as Sigmund Freud in the 2024 film, Freud’s Last Session.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20420628/
It details a fictional meeting with C.S. Lewis. Only hope Freud was as witty and snarky in real life.
What with this and Adam Phillip’s new book, On Giving Up, maybe Freud is making something of a comeback?
Mercator: "...but Northern countries ARE just larger than equatorial ones!"
Freud: "Gerardus, there's only one way I can say this..."
I found this short video fascinating, especially when Marie-Louise von Franz (who is incredible btw) talks about the concept of a national shadow and how knowing one's personal shadow can help keep one from falling into a collective shadow. But the rest is great too.
2/4
The film was partially inspired by Laura Mulvey's seminal paper, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen.
If you're curious, here's a link to the paper: https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1021/Laura%20Mulvey%2C%20Visual%20Pleasure.pdf
According to film scholar Robert Kolker, it "remains a touchstone not only for film studies, but for art and literary analysis as well".
I #amreading EMBRACING ALIENATION by #ToddMcGowan. Only a few pages in, and he's blowing my mind in some of the best ways possible. 
#alienation
#identity
#LifeHacks
#philosophy
#existentialism
#psychoanalysis
#Hegel
#DeathDrive
#reading
#books
#bookstodon
#subversive
#resist
A fascinating read, considering revenge from a psychotherapeutic perspective. Cogently argued, insightful, and thought-provoking.
#psychotherapy #psychoanalysis #johnewaterston #someonesdonesomethingwrong #bookstodon @bookstodon
For those of you who want to know, and also for the rest of you, here's the audio version of Lionel Bailly's excellent "Lacan: A Beginner's Guide."
#Lacan #psychology #psychoanalysis #Freud #mind #linguistics #MentalHealth #history #France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbivvP_gcMk&list=PLuaXbaI0qE6JY9pt_2VV95wEEWcBOzwWd
When I was studying #cinema in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was #structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #semiotics, #constructivism, and #AuteurTheory. I knew nothing of #Psychoanalysis, nothing of #Freud or #Lacan.
When #Zizek came out with his 2006 #film, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking.
Psychoanalysis of Ellen Lyman 1955.
By Dan Keys and Jack Kamen
Kaman does a pretty good job illustrating all of the stories in all 4 issues of this title, considering the constraint of the process of the story being written on the pages before the crowed artwork is begun; (3 of 3)
Psychoanalysis of Ellen Lyman 1955.
By Dan Keys and Jack Kamen
Publisher #BillGaines and editor #AlFeldstein tried a wide range of titles known as the New Direction, this title being a new genre in itself (2 of 3)
Psychoanalysis of Ellen Lyman 1955.
By Dan Keys and Jack Kamen
Very strange, innovative and wordy comic that was of it's time, when EC Comics was trying anything to find a breakout trend, as horror and crime comics were five years before (1 of 3)
My current favorite #podcast (among a ton that I listen to) is ORDINARY UNHAPPINESS.
Blurb: "A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield"
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
"Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
~ Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams at Project Gutenberg, Abraham Arden Brill's 1913 English translation:
Art involves vulnerability, a degree of struggle, mystery, and even suffering. You expose a part of yourself to be seen and judged by others. Sometimes even you are not aware of the origin, and depth that went into your work. All of this is lost in the immediacy and automatism of AI art. The full mystery of the human condition reduced to patterns and sterile prompts.
I'm thinking more an more that I need to become more familiar with the ideas of Jacques Lacan.
Good evening Fellow Earth Sharers. #books #psychology #psychoanalysis It’s all wonderful, a bit bollocksy, but wonderful bollocksy.
Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the #openaccess publication of The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A. Collings:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-rubble-of-culture/
'Humanity now faces the possibility it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This raises the prospect of thought’s own #extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear?
No familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the prospect of humanity’s extinction, each one is shattered. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble.
This book moves through this field to reconsider the emergence of #capitalism and #biopower the science of #climate change, and philosophies of #temporality
In the process it contends with many innovative waves of thought from the past two centuries, from German #idealism to #deconstruction, from #psychoanalysis to #queertheory, from #decolonizing theory to #afropessimism, and from the critique of #ideology to speculative realism.'
#NowWatching Spellbound - La Maison du docteur Edwardes - 1945 - Alfred Hitchock / Ingrid Bergman #filmnoir #romance #hitchcock #psychological #thriller #movie #cinema #film #cinemastodon #alfredhitchcock #psychoanalysis #psychanalyse
