Otto Gross – pedagogy as Nebenzimmererotik: a rival cure for mimetic ailments. The reconstruction of the American soul: an interview with Professor Lance Duerfahrd (part 1) (For the « Prologue » to this post please see Teacher of Bad Film 1.)…
The experiences of cinema and psychoanalysis. Wartime. The mechanical ear of the analyst. Bion dreaming, buffalo running. For a film goer to talk about a film they just saw – to truly talk about it: to account for their own…
I was in one of your dreams? Yeah. Can you deal with that? Yeah. A brilliant recent exploration of the nature of dreams, and their paradoxical (non-) place in our living environment is Jeff Nichols’s film Take Shelter (2012).…
Psychoanalysis is likened to voodoo, and seen as deriving from dreaming. The fright of the reader of psychoanalytical texts. Also: Masud Khan and the why of art. I am not a psychoanalyst, nor am I seeing one. But I read…