Movies: Psychoanalysis

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud....

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Made for Italian national television, Ellis Donda’s Il Corpo Rubato (The Stolen Body) is an experimental documentary on psychoanalisis in 70s/80s Italy, its analytical practices and forms of suggestion....

John Freeman interviews Carl Jung at his Zürich home, asking the psychologist questions about consciousness, his friendship with Freud, his thoughts on death, and his own self-analysis....

An experimental short that follows a nameless Girl who wakes up every day to mysterious cards sliding into her room. These cards have one-word instructions for her to dress up for a polaroid camera and to then send the developed picture back out to a...

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups....

A short film, based on a series of poems, about childhood, the break with parental, and war....

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he...

A documentary about Jacques Lacan and his influence on the main tendencies of modern psychoanalysis. It begins with a series of interviews with psychoanalysts who knew Lacan, and then presents an overview of Lacanian theory and practice that explores...

This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part is a recurring dream; the second, a Freudian analysis of the dream....

In "psychanalyse", a two part documentary, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot. The Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF, the frenc...

Niño Divino is a short-documentary about the Chilean writer and psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo. This story, narrated by Naranjo himself, explores the key moments that shaped his quest and defined his vision and philosophy of life....

A harrowing look into the realm of consciousness and sanity....