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…

In his paper on Alfred Lorenzer [1], Tobias Vollstedt uses the expression « scenical comprehension » to translate the German « szenisches Verstehen« . I feel that this translation might lead to misunderstandings, for two reasons: 1) The word « scenical » in English is closely…

(Le texte qui suit a originellement paru dans le mensuel luxembourgeois Forum, n° 320, juillet 2012.) Un nouveau spectre hante le Luxembourg. Après les médecins fripons et les enseignants fainéants, voici donc le fléau des psychothérapeutes dangereux. Ce danger est-il récent ?…

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…

During an evening out at the club, J. Edgar Hoover suddenly urges his friend and lover Clyde Tolson to leave in a hurry. They just came from a movie that was of important symbolic value:  Hollywood had eventually shifted from…