Section I, Division 39, APA Invites you to a special Discussion and film Screening of Gods and Monsters Academy Award 1998: Best Screen Play Adaptation.
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 11:00 AM. – 3:00 PM.
Training Institute for Mental Health
15 East 27th Street 4th Floor
New York, NY. 10001
Presenter: William Fried, PhD Board Section I, Div. 39, APA Fellow International Psychoanalytic Assoc.
“Gaiety Transfiguring All That Dread?”
Commentaries: Albert j. Brok PhD President Section I, Division 39, APA
Director Group and Couples Training, TIMH CineAnalises Group, Argentine Psychoanalytic Association
Joie de Vivre, Gaiety, Thanatos and what about sentimentality
?Ellen Gussaroff, PhD
Senior Faculty, TIMH
Member, Section I, Division 39, APA,
Unrequited love as denial of death andSexuality
Synopsis: of Bill Fried’s Presentation
“Gods and Monsters” is a thought provoking biographical study of James Whale, the Director of “Frankenstein”, “the Bride of Frankenstein” and ironically? “Showboat”. His story illustrates a number of psychoanalytic topics of individual and interpersonal relevance. The film is on one level a comedy about death, on another, about Whale’s internal dynamics and their influence on his relationship with a heterosexual homophobic man who is his gardener.
“Gaiety” in the title, of my presentation refers, in part, to the implication that the best approach to things that cause dread is the combination of creativity, laughter, and love divested of sentimentality. “Transfiguring” takes note of the innumerable metamorphoses involved in the creation of monsters, movies, states of consciousness, external appearances and emotions.
The film is a serious and subtle exploration of the ways in which Thanatos merges with the more life affirming elements of experience to produce the ambiguities, paradoxes, and ironies by which the human condition gains representation.
Registration./contribution fee is $10 (No charge for analytic Candidates and Fellowship students, of TIMH (2013). Fee is to help defray food and venue expenses partly sponsored by Section I, and the Advanced Study group on the Clinical Relevance of Relational styles at the Training Institute for Mental Health. You need to register so we can have an accurate attendance count.
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