479. EXPLORATIONS OF MIND ON FILM: A DANGEROUS METHOD

Peter Josyph

David Cronenberg’s A DANGEROUS METHOD dramatizes the often-turbulent relationship between two giants of modern psychiatry: Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung(Michael Fassbender). Adapted from a play by Christopher Hampton, the film also stars Keira Knightley as Sabina Speirein, Jung’s patient, student, and mistress. In this 2011 film, Dr. Carl Jung treats Sabina, a beautiful unbalanced patient, using the methods of his mentor, Dr. Sigmund Freud, but a rivalry between the doctors forms as each falls under her spell.  Join us for this film and what promises to be a lively discussion following it.

1:00 – 3:30 p.m.                                                                                                                               1 Session

Thursday, July 24                                                                                                                             Fee:  $50

ABOUT THE LECTURER

Peter Josyph works concurrently as a writer, painter, actor, photographer, and filmmaker. He has published 12 books, including five on Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy, and a series of fictions about Henri Matisse; his paintings have exhibited around the world, and his films include: Shakespeare in New York; A Few Things Basquiat Did in School; Hell; Bardtalk; No Standing in St. Petersburg; Acting McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses; and the award-winning Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero.