Psychoanalytic theory will be shown to illuminate Lynch’s iconic dream-logic, which is disturbing and beguiling in equal measure. The collection feels fresh and unquestionably offers more than just a rehashing of the popular psychoanalytic readings of Lynch. You can watch the video straight from our page once you’ve paid or log in to your Vimeo account, where you can find all the videos that you have rented. Filled with sickly rooms, dark corridors and oppressive small towns, David Lynch’s work often generates feelings of claustrophobia and confinement. Yet if Mulholland Drive lends itself to Freudian dream-logic, it also invites us, with Lacan, to pose a series of questions on the relationship between the unconscious cipher and the magnetising power of trauma.

STEFAN MARIANSKI is Education Manager at the Freud Museum London, where he works to engage young people with psychoanalytic thought.Following a decade of working with homeless people in Dublin, she trained as a psychoanalyst at St Vincent’s University Hospital, completed a PhD on narrative (im)possibilities in psychosis, and has been in private practice for the past thirty-three years. Some of the concepts went totally over my head having only studied a Psychology A Level but I feel like I got a lot out of reading this. A collection of essays that look at connections / reflections / considerations between the work of David Lynch and Freud. Lynch has refused to explain what his art means and apparently walked out of his first and only session with a psychiatrist because he feared the process could disrupt his creativity.

Please watch 'Lost Highway', 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' before attending sessions as there may be spoilers! Rather than presuming to fill in what Lynch leaves open by positing some forbidden psychosexual reality lurking behind his trademark red curtains, this book instead maintains a fidelity to the mysteries of his wonderful and strange filmic worlds, finding in them productive spaces where thought and imagination can be set to work. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Terms of Use: Only personal use is permitted without the written agreement of New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art Ltd. The brilliant contributors include directors, cinephiles, philosophers, art and cultural historians, as well as psychoanalysts.Encompassing themes such as art, identity, architecture, fantasy, dreams, hysteria and the unconscious, ‘Freud/Lynch’ takes as its point of departure the possibility that the enterprise in which these two distinct investigators are engaged might in some sense be a shared one. By exploring these questions, the reader can begin to peer behind the Lynchian curtain and will, most likely, see quite a bit more than they might have expected to.