On the Set of Freud’s Office

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By Phillip Freeman, MD, DMH The excerpt below comes from a paper given at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts, on the occasion of its production of the Mark St. Germain play Freud’s Last Session, about an encounter between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. Following the excerpt is a brief article describing and suggested by the discussion that followed the paper.   An excerpt from “Dramatizing Ideas in Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s...

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Three Critics on Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through” – VIDEO

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Full program below: THE THIRD ANNUAL SOLANGE SKINNER LECTURE SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 @ 1:00 – 4:00 pm at Wilson Hall, 234 Herrick Road, Newton Centre MA THREE CRITICS ON FREUD’S ‘REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING-THROUGH’ A CONVERSTION WITH STEPHEN GREENBLATT, JOSEPH KOERNER, and WENDY LESSER Moderated by ADAM PHILLIPS In this program, three distinguished critics respond to Freud’s classic paper, “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through”...

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An “Off the Couch” Discussion of the Film Her (2013)

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This film plays with the way we experience being “known” by someone else, being intimate, being intruded upon, having our personality invaded.     A word about Spike Jonze’s work: If you have seen Being John Malkovich (1999) or Adaptation (2002), you recognize in this “science fiction romantic comedy-drama” what Liam Lacey calls the “lonely guy genre.”   We have our basic socially awkward nerd. Like all the lonely...

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