“The Usual Suspects”: The Devil’s Greatest Trick


In the consultation room, a psychoanalyst sees the world entirely through the patient’s words.  This gives an unusual perspective on reality that is serendipitously reproduced in the modern film noir, The Usual Suspects.  By focusing on our patients and what they tell us, psychoanalysts have a close-up view of psychic reality, the reality of the mind in which perception, memory, and fantasy are intertwined.  However, this perspective creates problems in judging and verifying external reality.  The detective in this film and the audience itself share this perspective and the problems it creates. Continue reading “The Usual Suspects”: The Devil’s Greatest Trick

Movie explores the working relationship between Freud and Jung

Click Here to Read: Movie explores the working relationship between Freud and Jung by Kaleem Aftab on The National website on October 17, 2011.

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A scene from the film A Dangerous Method, which explores the working relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

David Cronenberg Says ‘A Dangerous Method’ Is An “Intellectual Ménage à Trois”

Click Here to Read:  David Cronenberg Says ‘A Dangerous Method’ Is An “Intellectual Ménage à Trois” by Kevin Jagernauth on the OurFrenz  Playlist website on October 3, 2011.

David Cronenberg

Click Here to Read: Sex, spanking and the bitter feud that Jung and Freud took to the grave, according to controversial new film and other posts on ” A Dangerous Method” on this website.

Serving up a blast from a Yiddish-writing past

Click Here to Read:  Serving up a blast from a Yiddish-writing past.  On the occasion of her 100th birthday, American author Bel  Kaufman, granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, summons up personal memories of the life of the illustrious Yiddish writer By Tamar Rotem on the Haaretz website on September 28, 2011.

Bel Kaufman

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Sex, spanking and the bitter feud that Jung and Freud took to the grave, according to controversial new film

Click Here to Read: Sex, spanking and the bitter feud that Jung and Freud took to the grave, according to controversial new film By Annabel Venning on the Mail Online website on 3rd September 2011.

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