FILM

Jung Center of Houston presents Film and Psychoanalysis.  This popular series, sponsored with the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society, returns to The Jung Center this summer. Four Thursdays: August 9 - 30 at 7 pm. Free.

Join us for 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 Psychoanalytic Society and The Jung Center.

August 9 - Little Miss Sunshine (2006): This is a surprisingly heartwarming dark comedy that premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was later nominated for four Academy Awards.

It tells the story of a family on an 800-mile road trip in a broken-down van, traveling to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest. It captures how far people will go to disavow unwanted aspects of themselves and others, the cost of such a stunted existence, and the greater energy and strength of integrating the unacceptable.

Sally Davis, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She teaches and supervises as a faculty member at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and as adjunct clinical faculty of the Baylor College of Medicine. She is past president of the Houston Psychoanalytic Society.