International Psychoanalysis

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In recent issues of International Psychoanalysis, I wrote about films, Field of Dreams and Contact, which strongly suggest a fantasy of returning to the womb to meet a father long gone and a mother who died too early to be known. Last month, I wrote about Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon and The Hours which suggest a fantasy in which death offers a reunion with a loving mother and a return to a time of blissful memory. In The Hours, suicide by drowning may be linked with a return to the quiet of the womb. In Pan’s Labyrinth, we have all of these fantasies wrapped up in a family romance.

Rarely, a film maker gives us a gift of a ready made demonstration of a well known psychoanalytic concept. We have recently been given such a gift by the Mexican director, Guillelmo del Toro, whose film, Pan’s Labyrinth, provides us with a complete family romance fantasy. (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucile Spira’s “On Being Lonely, Socially Isolated and Single: A Multi-Perspective Approach” 

Click Here to Read: Jacob Arlow’s Review of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Film “Blowup.” 

Click Here: for Jacob Arlow’s Papers.