PROJECTIONS: Cinematic representations of the unconscious

At one time, conscious will alone was accepted as the mind’s primary motivating agency, but Sigmund Freud was a game changer: he developed and popularized the mysterious concept of the unconscious (a repository of repressed memories, obscure fears and forbidden desires) as the source of human behaviour, inspiring surrealist artists and intellectual rebels along the way. Some critics doubt the existence of the unconscious; we can’t measure it or even see it – so how can we know what it is? Unconscious thoughts are not directly accessible to ordinary introspection, but can be deduced by special methods such as free association and parapraxes. Referring to dreams as the ‘royal road’ to the unconscious, Freud took pride in disturbing the sleep of humanity with his revolutionary psychoanalytic ideas. ‘PROJECTIONS: Cinematic representations of the unconscious’ is a 6-week course dedicated to the Freudian ‘archeologist’ tradition of digging away layers of the human mind in an attempt to translate the bizarre and beautiful language of the unconscious whilst imagining its shape and composition. Tracing the path of perplexing riddles that long to be deciphered, we will uncover the secrets of the soul from struggle to liberation, drawing symbolic connections with the cinematic experience.

Suitable for
Any age

Admission
£90 Adult £60 Concessions and Members of the Museum

Website
http://freud.org.uk/events/75895/projections-cinematic-representations-of-the-unconscious/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000274?id=EVENT520224