The Audio-Visual Project
Introduction
The films on this page are part of an ongoing AudioVisual project. This was started in 2007 by the Student Organisation of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, with the aim to film eminent psychoanalysts talking of their work and life with new generations of students and psychoanalysts. In 2008 a film group was also established in the British Psychoanalytical Society. Funding generously granted from the International Psychoanalytical Association will help to develop the quality of the materials produced, and will include the production and restoration of audiovisual material on various clinical and theoretical topics related to psychoanalysis, as well as its training. This page will be updated as new films will become available. [Ed.]
We are delighted that candidates and recently qualified
Members of the Institute1 have set this project
going, and that we are as a result able to show the videos
on the website. It is worth remarking that the
psychoanalysts represented are of course giving their own
views. Our members have many shared and overlapping beliefs
and conceptual frameworks for describing the mind (and
psychoanalysis), but of course these are complex topics
capable of being conceptualised and seen in a variety of
ways. Each person speaks for himself.
Michael Brearley
President
Video 1: Encounters through Generations
Encounters through Generations is a series of filmed events organised at the Institute of Psychoanalysis between old and new generations of psychoanalysts and candidates in training. This video is an edit of a longer DVD documentary which we hope will be available after Summer 2010.
Click here to submit your name and address if you would like further information on this production. We will be in contact once the DVD is completed and ready for distribution.
Video 2: Professor Peter Fonagy
Iago on the Couch - Preview
Created by
the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Iago
on the Couch
is the
first of a series of filmed discussions exploring some of Shakespeare’s most
complex and compelling characters. Iago
on the Couch sees
four pre-eminent figures in the theatrical and psychoanalytic fields engage in
discussion about the richly enigmatic character of Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello.
In a
discussion chaired by Don Campbell, former president of the British
Psychoanalytic Society, actor Simon Russell Beale, director Terry Hands, and
analysts Ignês Sodré and David Bell engage with this most notorious of
Shakespeare’s characters. Extensive theatrical experience and psychoanalytic
expertise meet in a deeply involved and wide-ranging examination of
Shakespeare’s arch manipulator.
On the 7th December
of this year, in the apt surroundings of London’s Freud Museum, the discussion
was filmed live by candlelight around the dining room table previously owned and
used by Sigmund Freud himself.
The
finished DVD will include an commentaries by renowned British psychoanalyst Ron
Britton, as well as a literary critical commentary by Laurie Maguire, Professor
of English literature at Magdalene College, University of Oxford and Michael
Billington, renowned theatre academic, writer and theatre critic.
As study material for students of literature, a work of interest to the general viewer, and an invaluable record of some of our generation’s most outstanding contributors to theatre and psychoanalysis, Iago on the Couch will be a source of fascination for many.
© The Institute of Psychoanalysis 2010
The AudioVisual Project includes:
Liz Allison
María Elena de Losada
Natasha Harvey
Fátima Martínez del Solar
Christine Miqueu-Baz
Kannan Navaratnem
Anne Patterson
Giovanni Polizzi (Chair)
Anne Ward
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