Movies can be a high art educating the Right Brain, and thereby building needed immunity against the barrage of negative “programs” our minds are subjected to on a daily basis. Decoding and analyzing movie symbolism can be done in a competent or incompetent manner. To do it correctly and productively entails delving deeply into the dynamics of the human psyche, particularly the psychology of children. This provides insight into the majority of the motifs seen in the stranger kinds of movies and television shows. Michael takes us deeply into the nuances of child psychology and helps us expertly decode the most bizarre and complex imagery in television and cinema. Films discussed in this episode include Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, Momento, Murmur of the Heart, The Cement Garden, IT, Mulholland Drive, Nostradamus, Nosferatu the Vampire, Tron, Jaws, The Hobbit, Star Trek (Who Mourns for Adonis?), Spellbound, Karate Kid. Superman, etc.
Program References
Melanie Klein
Magical Thinking
Child of Rage (Video)
Pleasure Principle
Polymorphous Perversity
Oedipus Complex
Superego
Repression
Displacement
Sublimation
Father Complex
Sexual Fetishism
Marquis de Sade
Comte de Lautreamont
Charles Baudelaire
Adam Paul Burkart:
Tyranny of the Masses (The Prisoner Explained)
