Total Pageviews

Subject Based Index of Posts by the Reluctant Psychoanalyst

Whether you have arrived from having read one my posts or from a search of a topic, welcome!  I post as an eclectic psychoanalyst about a variety of subjects that are listed below by category.  You can use the blogger search engine on the bar above to search for a topic/title/author or you can browse for posts by scrolling down to the categories below or using the category button to get to the area then link to the post by hitting the link.  NOT ALL CATEGORIES ARE CURRENTLY LIVE CLICKS BUT ALL ARE ACCESSIBLE BY SCROLLING DOWN AND ALL LINKS ARE ACTIVE.
Movies
Television
Plays and Musicals
All Things Shakespeare
Popular Books
Psychoanalytic Books, Talks, and Articles
Psychoanalytic Concepts
Psychology in the News
Education
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Psychoanalysis and Race in America
Music
Opera
Visual Arts
Travel and Living
Politics
MOVIES: (Alpha by title)
42 Jackie Robinson's story inspires but falls short.
Amadeus  Thank God for tragedies.
American Hustle  A posting mostly on Trump, this also briefly reviews the film.
Arrival Make contact with the world around you
August: Osage County - The Play's the Thing (also in plays)
The Avengers Age of Ultron - Heroic Narcissism
Avengers End Game We are, in the end, human after all...
Battle of the Sexes  A Biopic allows me to explore my own transference to an early idol
Belfast  A movie about how love sets the stage for life.
Bernie- Jack Black is Too Nice
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Birdcage, and Dirty Dancing - Sex and Coming of Age
Birdcage, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Dirty Dancing - Sex and Coming of Age
Birdman - more narcissism at the movies
The Big Lebowski - A Cult Classic
The Big Sleep  Bogey is the reluctant detective...
BlackKklansman and Green Book: a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one.
The Black Panther  Marvel's narcissistically healthy hero.
The Black Swan  Madness and mental illness are not the same thing...
Blue Jasmine - What is Woody Allen revealing about himself when he talks about women?
Das Boot  A German take on guilt - and the necessity of government... Despite the risks.
Bottle Shock Dreaming big dreams in the early California Wine Trade
Bride of Frankenstein Who knew horror could be so human?
Caché A French take on guilt
Captain Fantastic A (non super-hero) fantasy about being the perfect parent.
Captain Marvel is a superhero who helps us question racial and gender identity.
Carol A movie about Homosexuality, Culture and Telling
Casablanca My Mom's play helps me understand the movie - and our exceptionalism.
Cats, the Trailer The movie trailer causes me to reminisce about the musical play...
Conclave  How to choose a leader - and an analyst...
Copenhagen - Quantum Mechanics
The Crucible - Going Back to High School
Da 5 Bloods Vietnam, race, and the brutality of a war that's never over.
The Death of Stalin A Black Comedy that helps us be entertained by terrifying material.
Dirty Dancing, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Birdcage Sex and Coming of Age
Diva  A time travel back to my favorite movie in 1981.
Don Juan DeMarco A parable of psychological treatment and aging
Echo in the Canyon A documentary about the Rock Scene in Laurel Canyon and Creativity.
Elvis The Hagiography that cements the white man's self love in place.
The English Patient A movie of love and loss speaks to the experience of a reunion.
Escape from Alcatraz Truish story
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once  Truth in farce!
Eye in the Sky Alan Rickman's final performance: A movie about drone warfare
The Fabelmans.  What's in a name?
The Favorite is a film about Queen Anne's two female lovers and their fight for power over her.
Florence Foster Jenkins: How do we live with limitations?
The Founder McDonald's founder Ray Kroc epitomizes all that is the American Dream/Nightmare
Fences August Wilson's modern tragedy
Free Solo What does it cost to have the freedom to solo climb a mountain without support?
Get Low - A Quirky Independent Film
Get Out  The Horror of Racism
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande  Are sex and love necessarily linked?
Green Book and BlackKklansman a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one.
Hamlet  Branagh's 1969 masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in plays).
Her - The Therapeutic Relationship
The Help - Kathryn Stockett's Book and the Movie - Race and Consciousness
Hit Man - Life's complications are what makes life interesting.
Hope Springs - Marital Therapy
The Hunger Games A Kid's Film Proves to be Useful to an Adult
Inception Dreams as the basis for an action film - can we love someone who can't love us?
The Irishman is a gangster film that, I believe, reveals us all to be gangsters.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Charlie Kaufman's creepy film is a dream.
Inside Out - Pixar's Idea of the Mind
Inside Out 2 - Pixar's Development mirrors Riley's (and my) understanding of feelings.
Interstellar - Exploring our Fears in Outer Space
The Invention of Lying A world where no one lies?  What would it look like?
It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood  Is Mr. Rogers creepy?
Jaws - Finally Watching a Classic
Joker A film that is surprisingly poignant...
Life of Pi - Life Imitates Art
The Lost Daughter Maggie Gyllenhaal directs a maternal meditation.
Love Actually - A Holiday Tradition
Lucy A shoot 'em up
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom  Ugliness of race exposed by giftedness...
The Madness of King George is a 1994 film about the loss of executive function.
Maestro Leonard Bernstein's crazy love life is one we can all identify with...
The Magnificent Seven (Old School) A man's world...  or what passes for it...
A Man Called Ove  A Swedish romantic comedy about a curmudgeon - also in books.
Marriage Story is the title of a film that purports to be about divorce...
Medea Timely television movie from 1980's Denmark about the oppression of women.
Midnight In Paris Can We Appreciate What We Have?
Midnight In Paris Redux: seen through the eyes of Covid-19. (Also in Covid chronicles)
Moonlight  Coming of Age in an American Ghetto
My Octopus Teacher  Psychotherapy under the sea
Night at the Museum III - Goodbye to Robin Williams
Noah - A Modern Midrash
Nomadland A dream of nomadic life that hides nightmares...
Nope Jordan Peele uses horror (again) to unmask racism (I think...)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A personal favorite (Also in Books)
Oppenheimer A surprising blockbuster about good vs. evil.
Parasite is a rich film we discussed in class - and had multiple ways to see it.
Paterson A movie about living the poetic life
Pavarotti  A documentary film by Ron Howard (Also in opera)
Philomena An Irish Catholic Judi Dench learns about her past - and teaches us about anger.
Poor Things Can women's sexuality inform a college classroom?
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion's reflection on gender roles.
The Professor and the Madman is Sean Penn's depiction of a man going in and out of paranoia.
Psycho  Horror has to do (at its best) with what lies inside us.
The Queen of Versailles - A Documentary about Empty Wealth
RBG The documentary film where Ruth Bader Ginsburg psychoanalyzes to achieve justice.
Rear Window Hitchcock's masterpiece helps us peak at the male gaze with new eyes.
The Report  The CIA's torture is tracked down by the Senate.
Roadrunner  Anthony Bourdain's life and death.
Room Emma Donoghue's Book was later made into a Movie
Seven Samurai Kurosawa's classic film that is starkly anti-war and anti-violence.
Saving Mr. Banks Disney's wooing of P.L.Travers to put Mary Poppins on The Big Screen
Selma Martin Luther King's March for Voter's Rights
Shakespeare in Love - Was Will from Stratford?
The Shape of Water  How do we connect with otherness?
Shine Music and Failures of Trust or A Schizophrenic Virtuoso
Silver Linings Playbook - And a Poetry Slam
Social Dilemma Social media should be governed!
Soul Pixar uses death to teach us about how to live.
Spotlight  shines a light on Boston's shame and Donald Trump
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Universal themes come into question
Star Wars - The Last Jedi  Disenchantment with limited power...
Steve Jobs through the eyes of Aaron Sorkin and Victor Strecher - The RP finds Vulnerability
Stranger Than Fiction Will Farrell makes being human seem possible
Stutz A movie about therapy made by a patient raise all kinds of questions
The Taming of the Shrew Reviewed along with 10 things I hate about you
Tar A complicated film about cancel culture and the genius of being human.
The Tender Bar  A good movie that helps me understand a better one: Belfast.
10 Things I hate about You A RomCom based on Shakespeare's Shrew (same link as above)
Three Identical Strangers is a documentary about triplets separated at birth.  Nature/nurture anyone?
The Trial of the Chicago 7  Aaron Sorkin teaches us about power and dissent
Amy Schumer's Trainwreck - Morality and Integrity
Trumbo  The story of how to win an Oscar while on the Blacklist
The Two Popes  Can ideals really change who it is that we are?
Vertigo Hitchcock's masterpiece as seen through Freud's essay on the uncanny.
Vice  This film contributes to the problem it proposes to address
War Machine Brad Pitt's well intentioned but failed movie questioning counterinsurgency
White Noise DeLillo's postmodern view of the well organized chaos of the world we live in.
Wonder Woman  Does what Brad Pitt's War Machine could not...
Y Tu Mama Tambien Adolescent sexuality awakens much more than prurient interest.

TELEVISION SHOWS AND SERIES: (Alpha by Title)

Amok Time Remembering Leonard Nemoy and Star Trek
The Bear Culture change requires that individuals change.
Call My Agent: Dix Pour Cent The French, it turns out, have a nice sense of humor and life...
The Chair Being a Grown-Up isn't easy.
The Crown  Elizabeth becomes herself by becoming The Crown
The Crown: Edward VIII on The Crown  The anti-Elizabeth
Dead To Me Netflix first season is surprisingly like the unfolding that takes place in therapy.
Dead to Me Season 2 articulates why guilt accompanies loss and how mourning frees us.
Downton Abbey Nostalgia draws us back to a simpler time.
Episodes Matt LeBlanc's narcissistic vehicle is a guilty pleasure.
Grace and Frankie Netflix and Sexual Orientation for the Boomer Crowd
The Great  Hulu's Catherine The Great captures something essential though not biographical
Hacks The HBO series with to unlikeable characters that I could identify with.
Halston An appreciation of a new art form in a flawed biopic series.
Hamilton! on Television  A different experience four years later...
Hannah Gadsby's Nanette Comedy reflects on itself.
House of Cards Art presents a scary vision of life
House of Cards Final Season  Must we fight psychopathy with psychopathy?
The Lying Life of Adults The movie brings the book to life.
Madame Secretary A complex series, but still not as complicated as real life...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a cry for action in our times.
Medici Netflix' first two seasons of this series.
Medici Season 3: Lorenzo the Magnificent Neurotic - not narcissistic.
Mad Men The lies at the center of the American Dream
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction  David Letterman's series on Netflix.
The Newsroom  Aaron Sorkin's picture of Modern Journalism
Psi  A Brazilian Psychoanalyst Practices the Craft on HBO
Schitt's Creek The Sitcom revisioned as a developmental arc.
Seinfeld Morality and Music in the unlikeliest of places.
Severed Work life balance is hard enough when you can remember...
Sex Education Sex can be an expression of intimacy.
Sherlock  explores the mystery at the heart of mystery.
Shtisel Ultraorthodox Judaism in Jerusalem.
Star Trek  See Amok Time above.
Succession  Why can't I look away from this train wreck?
The Tiger King Narcissism and Psychopathy.
Transparent Gender changes shake things up.
Unorthodox Rules interfere with intimacy.
The West Wing Executive Functioning.
The White Lotus Lying is central to relationships.

PLAYS AND MUSICALS (Alpha by Title):
 
Appropriate A hot play about race that may get us better than we are comfortable at being got...
A Midsummer Night's Dream The comedy (rightly) makes light of serious business.
August: Osage County The Play's the Thing (also listed in movies)
Casablanca My Mom wrote and directed a play about the movie - and American Exceptionalism
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time (Also in books)
A Delicate Balance A star studded evening - and a talk by Jonathan Lear referenced elsewhere
Fences  Though I wrote about the movie - it felt like a night at the Theater.
Frank Lloyd Wright A play co-written and directed by the Reluctant Mother
Freud's Last Session by Armand Nicholi - also in Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Glass Menagerie  Kirsten Dahl discusses Females Treating Adolescents
Hamilton! Lin -Manuel Miranda (weirdly) does the Reluctant Psychoanalyst Proud
Hamilton! on Television  A different experience four years later... (also in T.V.)
Hamlet Branagh's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in films)
King Lear A flawed production starring Glenda Jackson illuminates the complexities of this play
Lady MacBeth and her Pal Megan Comedy by Megan Gogerty at the Fringe Festival
School of Rock  Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and oppression
Seminar Starring Alan Rickman as the generative teacher from hell
Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's bloodiest production illustrates projection

ALL THINGS SHAKESPEARE (All are listed elsewhere as well...)

A Midsummer Night's Dream The comedy (rightly) makes light of serious business.
Hamlet Branagh's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in films)
Hamnet  Maggie O'Farrell's description of the feminine in Shakespeare
King Lear A flawed production starring Glenda Jackson illuminates the complexities of this play
Lady MacBeth and her Pal Megan Comedy by Megan Gogerty at the Fringe Festival
Romeo and Juliet The Opera!
Shakespeare By Another Name Mark Anderson's case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Love - Was Will from Stratford?
The Taming of the Shrew Reviewed along with 10 things I hate about you
Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's bloodiest production illustrates projection

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin’s Coming of Age roman a clef that Comes together in One Day.

 Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Civil Rights, Personal Narrative, Power of the Concrete When I was...