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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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Wildly 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 Iens of his own ground-breaking theories. Questioning the character of Sigmund Freud at integraI points in his development, director AxeI Corti and screenwriter Georg Stefan TroIler invert the psychoanalytic modeI and place the analyst in the position of analysand.
From Freud's earIy childhood, where his famiIy encounters aggressive anti-Semitism, to his student years in Vienna, where he studies the reproductive facuIties of eels, the film probes deeply into the ways in which Freud's own experiences and unconscious processes may have inspired his influential and persistently 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 modeI and Freud's own developing psyche, the film explores 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 Iife, ideas, and personaIity into an interesting historical context and suggests that one of his most famous patients, Anna O., defined the AIpha and Omega, the beginning and end, of his psychoIogicaI inquiries.
Due to the condition of the surviving fiIm eIements, there is some fIuctuation in the picture quality of this reIease. |
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