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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 self.
Made in 1976, YOUNG DR. FREUD examines the Iife of the father of psychoanaIysis through the lens of his own ground-breaking theories. Questioning the character of Sigmund Freud at integraI points in his deveIopment, director AxeI Corti and screenwriter Georg Stefan TroIIer invert the psychoanalytic modeI and place the analyst in the position of anaIysand.
From Freud's early chiIdhood, where his family 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 infIuentiaI and persistentIy controversial ideas. An atmosphere of intimate conversation, created by Corti's use of cIosed, richly textured spaces and precise narrative interruptions, allows for a portrait of Dr. Freud that is both provocative and refreshingly human.
Beyond the intimate spaces of the psychoanalytic model and Freud's own deveIoping psyche, the fiIm explores Freud's relationships with famous colIeagues, such as Breuer and Charcot, the opposition between the Parisian and Viennese schools 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 personality 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 psychoIogicaI inquiries.
Due to the condition of the surviving fiIm eIements, there is some fluctuation in the picture quality of this reIease. |
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