Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious

As a place where the unconscious and conscious meet, cinema offers the potential for imagery that is psychologically potent, meaningful and that plays a role in our personal psychological development. It is not at all unusual for people to have strong attachments to individual films, or for films to crop up in personal therapy to good psychological

Here are a few pitfalls to avoid. Jung pioneered the idea of archetypes, so let’s go and find archetypes in films, for example the shadow, the anima and the wise old man.

“ … moviemaking can be considered thee contemporary form of mythmaking, reflecting our response to ourselves and the mysteries and wonders of our existence”(Voytilla, 1999, p. 1)