Film Series:  Mind Games

Mulholland Drive

Friday March 18, 2016     7:00-9:00 PM

Part psychological thriller, part biting satire of Hollywood -and above all- a mystifying exploration of dreams, trauma and shifting identities. Come prepared to enter Lynch’s ” murky night world of the unconscious” (New York Times).

This workshop is designed to help the participants to:

1. Deconstruct the film’s visual images to identify its psychoanalytic vocabulary.
2. Analyze the relationship between cinematic and psychological  elements of the dream  as it structures the film.
3. Discuss how the film operates as a projection of states of fantasy, paranoia and trauma requiring the revelation of psychoanalysis to unlock and  interpret its meaning

Presenters:

Emily Fox- Kales, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, is Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She also teaches cinema studies at Northeastern University and the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies and was Film Editor of Gender & Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders (SUNY Press, 20ll).

Danielle Egan, Ph.D. is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University and an advanced psychoanalytic candidate at the Boston Graduate School for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of three books including Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of Girls and Sexualization(Polity 2013).

Fee:  Free or $20 per event for CE’s/Clock Hours*

*Full refund available if you cancel one week prior to the event. If you have any questions, email info@bgsp.edu.

Please View Film in Advance

Application for social work continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at ContinuingEd@BGSP.edu for the status of social work CE accreditation.

The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP) has been approved by as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 5676.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. BGSP is solely offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the programs.