Part I: Watching Movies. Introduction; Modernity, fragmentation and film. The Face and Film; The surface and what’s beneath. Film and The Shadow; Film and its gaps - emptiness as shadow to substance. Cinema, Jung and the American psyche; How Europe got to know the mind of America through the movies. Part II: Making Movies. What makes movies work; Unconscious process and the filmmaker’s craft. Based on real events’; Narratives of fact and fiction in film. Changing Your Story. Narrative, time and meaning in the movies. Part III: Projecting movies. Out of the not-knowing, something forms. Unusual Suspects: movies in the therapist’s room. Anima-Animus; Soul-image and individuation.
Biography
Christopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst and senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and a filmmaker. He is the author of Human Being Human: Culture and the Soul (Routledge, 2005), Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities (Routledge, 2000), co-editor of Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image (Routledge, 2001) and a new collection, Jung and Film II: The Return (Routledge, 2011).
