Summary: <br> A sold out 90-minute lecture followed by 30-minute group discussion filmed at the Freud Museum London on 22 August 2012. <br> Making sense of 'Lost Highway',' Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' can be a daunting task! These films by David Lynch have captivated and mystified audiences around the world; Freudian psychoanalysis offers a chance to decipher the American director's luxurious cinematic dreamscapes. In the first of the PROJECTIONS lectures, these titles will be considered as forming a 'trilogy of blurred identity', where the central character in each installment experiences a psychogenic fugue following the trauma of unrequited love within marriage and/or Hollywood. Special focus will be placed on Freud's hydraulic model of desire in the search for meaning in these enigmatic films. <br> <br> <br> PROJECTIONS is psychoanalysis for film interpretation.PROJECTIONS empowers film spectators to express subjective associations they consider to be meaningful. Expertise in psychoanalytic theory is not necessary - the only prerequisite is the desire to enter and inhabit the imaginary world of film, which is itself a psychoanalytic act. Please watch 'Lost Highway', 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' before attending sessions as there may be spoilers! MARY WILD, a Freudian cinephile from Montreal, is the creator of PROJECTIONS. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
