FREUD & FROWNLAND

In the Interpretation of Dreams, Freud posits the foundation of psychical life, both in dreams and reality, as “the operation of two psychical forces,” where expression “constructs the wish,”  and repression “exercises a censorship upon this dream-wish,” effectively “bringing about a distortion in the expression of the wish...”

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MOSS, WISEMAN, & THE CASE OF TITICUT FOLLIES

In Hating In The First Person Plural, Donald Moss introduces the collection of psychoanalytic essays by drawing from personal experience in an anecdote where he describes watching newsreels of war footage as a young child.

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CONTEXTUALIZING THE EARLY CINEMATIC WORKS OF BILL GUNN

In the opening sequence of Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess' (1973), the billowing voice of musician Sam Waymon (brother to Nina Simone) echoes the traditional gospel hymn “I Know It Was the Blood,” overlayed by still, intercut frames of marble statues emanating in agony.

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JOHN CASSAVETES AND GENA ROWLANDS:
“THE FACE OF LOVE STREAMING”

It’s too late a night in suburban Los Angeles where fragile housewife Mabel Longhetti emerges from the bathroom having slit open her hand in what appears to be an attempted suicide.“I was just tired,” she eventually explains. The brittle mother trips over her own feet while keeping her kids rounded up in her arms, trying not to stain them with her own blood.

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