The moving portrait

Freud in motion.

Black-and-white portrait films, provocations and spoken fragments. The image is contemporary. The intellectual material comes from Freud's work and the living encounter built around it.

Film 00 / Silent portrait

The room before the voice.

A silent moving portrait created as the threshold to the Freud Universe.

Film 01 / The ghost

You can speak with me.

The introduction to an artificial historical performance.

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Hello. My name is Sigmund Freud, or perhaps I am his ghost. In this app, you can speak with me. I bring the knowledge of psychoanalysis into a living analytic session, with you.

Film 02 / Speak freely

Begin wherever you wish.

The person speaking chooses the material. Freud follows.

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Speak freely. Tell me what returns to your mind, what troubles you, and what you dream. I will listen as an analyst, drawing on every work I wrote and the entire tradition of psychoanalysis.

Film 03 / The library

The books are no longer silent.

A conversation becomes a personal route through the corpus.

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My books are no longer silent. Here, their knowledge speaks back. Ask me about dreams, desire, anxiety, love, childhood, or the unconscious, and receive not a quotation, but an analytic conversation.

Film 06 / Intellectual deference

The opinion of the world.

From On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, 1914.

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That I have not developed any particular respect for the opinion of the world or any desire for intellectual deference during those years, when I alone represented psychoanalysis, will surprise no one.

Film 10 / Archaeology

What vanished leaves traces.

Adapted from Constructions in Analysis, 1937.

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Analysis resembles archaeology. We reconstruct what has vanished from fragments, repetitions, silences, and traces that remain alive inside the person before us.

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