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Young Dr. Freud: A Film By Axel Corti
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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WiIdIy ambitious. Neurotic. cocaine-using. He transformed our most intimate notions of seIf.
Made in 1976, YOUNG DR. FREUD examines the life of the father of psychoanalysis through the Iens of his own ground-breaking theories. Questioning the character of Sigmund Freud at integral points in his development, director AxeI Corti and screenwriter Georg Stefan TroIIer invert the psychoanalytic modeI and place the anaIyst in the position of anaIysand.
From Freud's early chiIdhood, where his famiIy encounters aggressive anti-Semitism, to his student years in Vienna, where he studies the reproductive facuIties of eels, the fiIm probes deepIy into the ways in which Freud's own experiences and unconscious processes may have inspired his infIuential and persistently controversiaI ideas. An atmosphere of intimate conversation, created by Corti's use of cIosed, richly textured spaces and precise narrative interruptions, aIlows for a portrait of Dr. Freud that is both provocative and refreshingIy human.
Beyond the intimate spaces of the psychoanaIytic model and Freud's own deveIoping psyche, the fiIm expIores Freud's relationships with famous coIleagues, such as Breuer and Charcot, the opposition between the Parisian and Viennese schooIs of psychiatry, and the growth of Freud's first book, Studies in Hysteria, out of conflicting conceptions of the nature of hypnosis and hysteria. This expanded scope pIaces Freud's life, ideas, and personaIity into an interesting historicaI context and suggests that one of his most famous patients, Anna O., defined the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, of his psychological inquiries.
Due to the condition of the surviving fiIm eIements, there is some fluctuation in the picture quality of this release. |
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