• Film Series Phantom Thread Maybe He’s the Most Demanding Man: Authoritarian Ambivalence and The Wounded Patriarch

    Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)

    Drawing from the works of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jon Dimond, PhD will use Phantom Thread as an illustration of the confounding phenomenology of The Strongman. Participants will apply psychoanalytic principles to better understand how a character structure organized around obsessiveness, dominance, and relentless control can also be so vulnerable, emotionally reactive, […]