Freud: The Secret Passion

Freud is a biopic about Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and deals mainly with the discovery and exploration of the unconscious.

Action

The neurologist Sigmund Freud works in 1885 at the General Hospital in Vienna and gets there about the questions about hysteria in dispute with his superiors.

Freud went to Paris and became friends with Professor Jean -Martin Charcot, Freud makes the familiar with the nature of hypnosis. Through hypnosis, Freud discovered the unconscious, which is separated from rational thought and responsible for manifold disorders characterized.

Back in Vienna, Freud takes over Dr. Meynert, which draws him and his theories into ridicule. But Freud finds in Dr. Josef Breuer an advocate to assist him. This transfers him two cases that will prove his theories: those of Cecily Kortner and those of Carl von Schlosser. Based on these two patients, Freud explains, inter alia, also the Oedipus complex.

Background

  • The original screenplay was by Jean -Paul Sartre, but submitted a several hundred page book, which opposed the director, so that Sartre withdrew his name from this movie.
  • Huston and Clift came on the set not with each other (the literature gives this clifts alcoholism, depression due to his not accept homosexuality, as well as director Huston's generally quite macho appearance on the set that is to be passed sometimes in open bullying of depressed actor ), and Clift was sued because of a delay in the rotation sequence. Clift later sued his hand and got the studio after a long legal dispute, but died after continued alcohol and drug consumption in 1966, four years after the publication of Freud, at the age of 45 of a heart attack.
  • Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, was not satisfied with the result, since neither the person of her father, nor his work were displayed according to the film.
  • This film is still often presented in introductory courses in universities in the study of psychology.
  • Parts of the film music composer Jerry Goldsmith used for his later work in Alien.

Reviews

"Roman imprisonment popularized biography of the Viennese psychiatrist and depth psychologist - confined to the period of life from 1885 to 1890, discovered in the Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic method; simplified in the treatment of mental problems and coarsened. Director Huston commissioned Jean Paul Sartre with a draft of the screenplay, which was not implemented, but given the film in its main ideas. "

Awards

  • Also in 1963 John Huston was nominated for the film at the 1963 Berlinale for the Golden Bear.
  • In the same year there was a Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress ( Susan Kohner ).
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