Sigmund Freud's Dora (E)

United States, 1979

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A critique of the representation of women in psychoanalytic discourse is linked, in the form of an ‘essay’, with modes of representation of women’s sexuality in the visual media. Sigmund Freud’s case history of Dora (‘Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’ published in 1905) is ‘re-read’ in three sections: an argument over the politics of psychoanalysis; a thematic linking of psychoanalytic discourse/pornographic film/advertising; and questions, in the form of post cards from Dora, posed about the way women look at themselves. Warning: sexually explicit.

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Credits

co-producers/directors

Anthony McCall

Claire Pajaczkowska

Andrew Tyndall

Jane Weinstock

Duration

00:35:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1979

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015574

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Mass media

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Feminism

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Feminist theory

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Women

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Educational films

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Feminist theory

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Women

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Dreams

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychoanalysis

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Women

Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Dreams

People → Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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