The American Psychoanalyst
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In Ask a Psychoanalyst, Stephanie Newman, PhD, responds to reader questions about therapy, relationships, and the psychopathology of everyday life. Submit your questions to advice@tapmag.org. Your identity will be kept anonymous.
The Atheist and the Apologist
Sigmund Freud’s famous dictum “from error to error, one discovers the entire truth” seems entirely appropriate as a guide for attempting to critically evaluate Matthew Brown’s strange film adaptation of Mark St. Germain’s one-act play Freud’s Last Session.
TEMPORALITY AND THE FIGHT FOR MEANING IN ‘THE FATHER’ (2020)
In a pivotal scene very near the end of Florian Zeller’s 2020 film The Father, the titular character Anthony (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) says to a caregiver in a heartbreaking moment of memory struggle, “I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves ... the branches and the wind and the rain ... I don’t know what’s happening anymore.”