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SUMMARY:Save the Date: Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: "The Backrooms": Alex Smith\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the film “The Backrooms”\n2025 (110 mins)\nDirector: Kane Parsons \nAfter a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality\, she must venture into the unknown to save him.  \nFriday\, October 30\, 2026\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\n*Film must be viewed before event \nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, PsyD \nPresentation: Horror cinema’s infatuation with the motif of the “liminal space” reflects our personal\nexperience of the self at the precipice of disintegration\, the sense that the “I” is\nimpossible to define in the modern sociocultural void. The deistic Algorithm functions as\na mirror. Whether through rage-baiting vignettes\, or advertisements for a raincoat that\nyou don’t need\, (but could kind of imagine yourself wearing)\, the Algorithm provokes\nworship\, just as it induces dissonance. If the mirror is imperfect\, how imperfect is our\ngrasp of ourselves\, and the world? \nWhen the physical world is subjected to this same procedural generation\, it creates a\nliminal void- a monochromatically yellow office space running copy-paste routines of\nreality. This is the liminal space that Backrooms threatens. The self—and\, by extension\,\nthe world—is never fully ordered. It is fragmented patchwork in constant transition\,\nresisting ever being fully known. Parsons’ Backrooms depicts the “liminal space” and\nthe “I” as they approach a superposition. In here is a boundaried “me”. Out there is an\nimperfect copy waiting to engulf the “me.” As the backrooms iterate and metastasize\,\nour broken selves will leak into the transitory\, undefinable\, liminal field. Ultimately\, these\nsimulacra—reflections of self\, culture\, dream—may replace reality.\nAs a genre\, horror functions as a fantastical iteration of universal human experience.\nThe unthinkable and the unfeelable are depicted as just far enough into the woods (or\ndeep enough into the basement) to belong to the other. At this distance\, we are free to\nexamine these thoughts and feelings\, but never fully inhabit them. Together\, we will\nconsider Backrooms\, the function of the liminal space\, and their explanatory power in\nunderstanding the self in transition and in resistance\, as well as the universal fantasy of\nthe self and the world as orderly\, or at least once-orderly\, paradigms.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/save-the-date-psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-the-backrooms-alex-smith-psyd/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261211T160000
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: "Till Death":  Katherine Marshall Woods\, PsyD & filmmaker Yana Billé-Chung
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the film “Till Death” \n2025 (20 mins)\nDirector: Yana Billé-Chung \nWhen a kind young couple is offered the chance of a lifetime to purchase their dream house from an ailing octogenarian at a fraction of its asking price\, they eagerly accept. However\, the deal comes with a significant catch: the older woman must live with them until her death\, at which point the house will become theirs. \nFriday\, December 11\, 2026\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\n*Film will be viewed during the event. \nDiscussant: Katherine Marshall Woods\, PsyD & filmmaker Yana Billé-Chung \nPresentation: Films can often present one narrative and transform before our eyes to offer a different lens to consider.  Hopeful beginnings can manifest into dark narratives that provide a richer meaning to the artistic production. When craving object connection\, individuals can find themselves seeking attachments in ways that may have been unforeseen.  Within the honeymoon phase\, the connection yields fruit; however\, when expectations are not met\, negative feelings of competition and envy arise. Together\, we will explore the impact of lack of connection with desired object selves/groups and affective states in isolation. \nYana Billé-Chung’s Till Death is a substantial contribution to dark narrative productions.  Award-winning at Diversity in Cannes\, 2026 for Best Actress and Best Screenwriting\, the characters demonstrate how one’s true self is masked in the service of gaining one’s primary need for connection.  Viewing this dynamic across generations shows how the human condition remains steadfast in the desire for human connection and the lengths individuals will take to achieve connection and a feeling of being with community.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/save-the-date-psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-till-death-katherine-marshall-woods-psyd-filmmaker-yana-bille-chung/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: "Before Dawn (Перед Світанком)": Oksana Yakushko\, PhD & filmmaker Yuliia Haleta
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the film “Before Dawn (Перед Світанком)”  \n2024 (11 mins)\nDirector: Yuliia Haleta \nThis is not supposed to happen in your twenties\, but you embrace the emptiness. \nA spacious apartment on the third floor is the only one with the lights on. It’s a warm island in the cold ocean of the outer world. The party is in full swing in there. Clinking glasses\, chatter\, and laughter drift out through the open balcony. It’s a classmate reunion. Ten years after graduation. They set the goal to hold on till dawn\, just as they did on graduation night. And it all goes well until people start disappearing without leaving a trace. \nFriday\, January 29\, 2027\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\n*Film will be viewed during the event \nDiscussant: Oksana Yakushko\, PhD & filmmaker Yuliia Haleta \nPresentation: Psychoanalysis as a discipline was developed within the context of the Great War (World War I)\, offering distinct perspectives on understanding human lives amidst conditions of large-scale violence. Early psychoanalytic theories\, including Freud’s work\, offer meaningful contributions to understanding how human lives and human minds experience such forms of trauma and brutality. Ideologically based forms of state violence\, whether eugenic-based anti-Semitism of the Third Reich or communist-based repressions and “red terror\,” were also known and addressed by early psychoanalysts (including Freud). In addition\, direct experiences of World War II by many analysts\, including from its trenches or while being bombed\, also shaped psychoanalytic theories and approaches to clinical work. In reflecting on this film\, we can consider how existing psychoanalytic frameworks help us witness\, experience\, understand\, and respond to ongoing violence against Ukrainians (and other groups) as well as human aliveness amidst deadly wars. In addition\, we can reflect on how contemporary wars can shape and change psychoanalytic thinking today.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/save-the-date-psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-before-dawn-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b4-%d1%81%d0%b2%d1%96%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bc-oksana-yakushko-phd-filmmaker-yuliia-haleta/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270430T160000
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: "The Substance": Jamie Steele\, LMFT
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the film “The Substance”  \n2024 (141 mins)\nDirector: Coralie Fargeat \nA fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger\, better version of herself. \nFriday\, April 30\, 2027\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\n*Film must be viewed before the event. \nDiscussant: Jamie Steele\, LMFT  \nPresentation: The 2024 film The Substance uses abjection to explore the internal (psychic) and external (relational/social) impacts of aging and misogyny. This presentation will focus on the aspects of grief\, agency\, and wish fulfillment.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/save-the-date-psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-the-substance-jamie-steele-lmft/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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