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Home » Sigmund Freud

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Posted inBlogs

Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck’s Star of the Week

by Patrick Friel August 22, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck’s “star of the week” Lana Turner shines in these five films.

Posted inArts & Culture

In CDC in 4-D, the Comedy Dance Collective indulges its oral fixation

by Irene Hsiao May 9, 2018August 18, 2021

It’s a show better consumed in a state of inebriation.

Posted inFilm

Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

by J.R. Jones October 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.

Posted inBlogs

The U. of C. makes its play for the Obama library

by Ben Joravsky January 15, 2015August 18, 2021

The University of Chicago out-Rahms the mayor in shamelessness with a cunning land grab involving the Obama presidential library.

Posted inBlogs

Tomorrow, join a discussion on Adam Curtis’s The Century of the Self at the Edgewater branch library

by Ben Sachs November 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Noting a free screening and conversation about the provocative 2002 series of essay films

A still from Derek Brunen's Plot
Posted inArts & Culture

“The Way of the Shovel” could dig a little deeper

by Sam Worley November 12, 2013August 19, 2021

An MCA exhibit about art and archaeology could dig a little deeper.

Are You My Mother? (cover and one page above) offers no earth-shattering plot twist, just Alison Bechdel
Posted inArts & Culture

Alison Bechdel remembers Mama

by Elly Fishman May 22, 2012August 19, 2021

A review of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother?

Posted inBlogs

Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 2)

by Ben Sachs January 5, 2012August 19, 2021

The second of a three-part series on Adam Curtis’s All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

Posted inBlogs

This week’s movie action

by J.R. Jones December 16, 2011August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Posted inFilm

Freudian slip

by J.R. Jones December 15, 2011August 19, 2021

Jung and Freud clash in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method

Posted inBlogs

Things Go Better With Coke

by Cliff Doerksen August 10, 2010August 19, 2021

The party line on drug suppression, circa 1897.

Posted inNews & Politics

Artificial Intelligence/Steppenwolf Strikes a Nerve

by Michael Miner January 6, 2000August 19, 2021

Media columnist Mike Miner on Y2K and Steppenwolf’s 1999 production of Hysteria, a dark farce that raised the issue of “trigger warnings” before the term had come into use.

Posted inArts & Culture

Final Analysis

by Albert Williams December 9, 1999August 19, 2021

Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre’s 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson

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