‘In film everything is a constructed reality’ (Berry 2001: 73):

Ulysses is for me the prototype of … modern man … (and) the man of the future as well, because he represents the type of the ‘trapped’ voyager. His journey was a voyage toward the centre, toward Ithaca, which is to say, toward himself. He was a fine navigator, but destiny – spoken here in terms of trials of initiation which he had to overcome – for

‘Without balance you transgress your limits without noticing

Film narratives, images and ideas frequently go further than the conscious intentions of those who make them.

‘Only what is human and what you call banal and hackneyed contains the wisdom that you seek’.

One sees all sorts of stunning feats. There was one man who ran up houses. Another carried his head under his arm. Another stood in the middle of a fire and wasn't burnt. Yes, it's really remarkable, the things that people can do.

Film is a surface art and in it whatever is inside is outside.

The first films were screened publicly in Paris in 1895, the same year that Freud was delivering his initial findings in psychoanalysis and Jung was turning his reading of Nietzsche into what would become his psycho-social theories of analytical psychology (Jung 1896).

One analyst told me of a client who grew up in a family where no one was allowed to watch anything except cartoons. It was as if the whole family had not grown up. When she was depressed, the client watched cartoons all day. She eventually confessed how she would be terrified to watch a romantic comedy; the idea of going to the video store and watc