PROJECTIONS: Psychopathology of everyday economics - a cinematic journey

Six-week evening course ‘PROJECTIONS: Psychopathology of everyday economics – a cinematic journey’ is a 6-week course deconstructing filmic representations of money and the workplace in a psychoanalytic framework, with particular attention to concepts including the pleasure principle, anal stage of psychosexual development, obsessional neurosis, death drive, alienation and desire. The market’s non-negotiable ambition is maximum profit at any cost; it competes fiercely and we follow suit, trading our labour (sometimes at uninspiring, dead-end jobs) to access the means of survival; inequality is becoming rife with material excess enjoyed by an elite few and austerity imposed on the vast majority. So what is the path to liberation from a system where financial globalisation, like the ego, is always an inauthentic agency, serving to disguise an unsettling absence of unity? How can we, individually and collectively, connect once more to a dignified livelihood built, defiantly, not on greed, but on meaningful creativity, the irresistible cornerstone of humanness?
Admission
£95/£65concessions/Member of the Freud Museum

Website
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/76075/projections-psychopathology-of-everyday-economics-a-cinematic-journey/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000274?id=EVENT536868