Movies: Psychoanalysis

A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality....

A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared....

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session....

A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state....

A young man is haunted and tested by the shadows of his past, and must choose between the path of self acceptance or self destruction....

Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he ...

A film about the collective psychological traumas of Ukrainians....

Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories....

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to di...

Khalid and Shady, two medical students and best friends, apply as volunteers in a social experiment only to find themselves held captive....

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups....

A heterosexual man pretends to be gay in order to keep his career in the world of art, which causes many misunderstandings with his wife, and mother....

In 1950 Jerome Hill went to Zurich with the intention of making a film about Dr. Carl G. Jung. The project was abandoned when Hill decided that Jung was not a good subject. After Hill's death, Jonas Mekas edited the film which focuses on Dr. Jung as ...

A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker....

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In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador Ashdown (Hunger Games star Donald Sutherland), tracking down a vigilante assassin in Eastern Europe. The maverick hit(wo)man has been taking out high-...

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unex...

A film by Spetsnaz, narrated through a first person perspective, documenting his journey and the journeys of countless other men. "A Documentary Told in Four Chapters. Featuring many favorite content creators & some of the videos that impacted me t...

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, heir to Sigmund Freud and the English school of psychoanalysis, passionate about both science and the movement of ideas, Jacques Lacan has been called the "French Freud". He was a clinician of madness in general and fe...

An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions from the public in regards to politics and ideology, gender and sex, philosophy and psychoanalysis,...