Film & Psychoanalysis | Phantom Thread (Hybrid)

On behalf of The Jung Center, in collaboration with the Houston Psychoanalytic Society and your instructor Asli Baykal, we’re delighted to present Film and Psychoanalysis: Phantom Thread. Feel free to invite friends—advance registration is strongly encouraged!

 Explore complicated grief and attempts to resolve it through “perverse pacts.”

This program will take place: Friday, 10/17

• Doors open and reception 5pm
• Free In-Person Screening begins at 5:30p
• Break 7:45 to 8pm 
• Presentation and Zoom room opens from 8:00 to 9:00 PM CT 
• Registration closes at 8:15pm

Wine, popcorn, and cookies will be available during the reception, included as part of the program.  Note due to copyright restrictions, the film screening is free but available in-person only and will not be included in the recording.

About the film- Phantom Thread is a strange and enthralling movie about a sought-after fashion designer in 1950s London. What starts out as a riff on boy-meets-girl, unfolds quietly, and turns into an allegory about self-absorbed male artists and the female muses who love and nurture them. The movie is replete with psychoanalytic themes like the nature of desire and attraction, dialectics of power and control, complicated grief, and unconscious phantasy. The ghostly title itself evokes psychoanalysis. While complicated grief and attempts to resolve it through “perverse pacts” will be our starting point in this discussion, we will likely find plenty of other psychoanalytic gems along the way.

Asli Baykal, PhD LCSW is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin, TX. Prior to clinical training, she was a professor of cultural anthropology. Asli did her psychoanalytic training at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, where she currently serves on the faculty.

The one-hour presentation is being offered both IN-PERSON and ONLINE. Please select how you will attend when registering. Recordings will be distributed to registered participants only, and will not be available for individual purchase.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

*The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (TBHEC) has stopped pre-certifying ANY Continuing Education or Professional Development for mental health providers. The Jung Center cannot guarantee that the programs we provide will qualify for continuing education or Professional Development, nor can any other agency. The Jung Center uses high educational standards when selecting to designate events as "potentially appropriate for CEs", and in evaluating the outcomes of our educational services, and we believe them to meet the requirements of state licensing bodies. To find out more about the TBHEC changes to Continuing Education and Professional Development, click here: https://junghouston.app.neoncrm.com/np/viewDocument?orgId=junghouston&id=40288ab689aaa0f10189ada9005e0073