LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Jung Center of Houston presents Film and Psychoanalysis.  This popular series of free film screenings and lectures, sponsored with the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society, returns to The Jung Center this summer. Four Thursdays: Aug. 5-26
at 7:00 pm.

Join us for these free film screenings and lectures, which will examine film through the lens of psychoanalysis. Each screening will be followed by brief comments from a different speaker from The Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society and The Jung Center.

Series Schedule of Screenings and Speakers:

August 5
500 Days of Summer (2009). In Marc Webb's hilarious, critically acclaimed satire, two unconventional lovers negotiate a doomed relationship for 500 days. While this vision of contemporary romance is uproariously funny, it is also biting in its penetrating view of how the movies create a mythology about love, sex and fate.

Glen O. Gabbard, MD is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and training and supervising analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author or editor of 24 books, including Psychoanalysis and Film, Psychiatry and the Cinema, and The Psychology of the Sopranos.

August 12
Crazy Heart (2009). An almost plotless tale filmed in the Southwest and Houston, the storyline is all too familiar: a worn out country singer (Oscar winner Jeff Bridges), alone and lost in his life, uses whiskey to black out his days. And yet for our sometimes comic and always tragic hero, salvation and another shot at life appear, allowing a man's heart and soul to come alive again.

Karen Magee, MA, LMFT, LPC is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Houston and a senior training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, where she currently chairs the Ethics Committee.

August 19
The Whole Wide World (1996). In 1934, a young school teacher in Cross Plains, Texas falls in love with a local celebrity, the eccentric pulp writer Robert Howard. When she realizes that her beloved is 'married' to his mother, the romance cools. The bonds of friendship endure, however, and, at the age of 70, Novalene Price writes the true story of her life-altering relationship to this brilliant and tormented soul.

Diana Heritage, LCSW, Jungian analyst, holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Houston and is a graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has been in private practice in Houston since 1993.

August 26
Fatal Attraction (1987). Glenn Close stars in this critically acclaimed thriller about a married man who wants a fling and a woman who wants much more. Their dark dance of desire, obsession and denial graphically depicts some of the deepest wishes and fears in the human heart.

Sally Davis, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine and is currently President of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society.