Film and Mind Online: Breathless

January 13, 2023, 8:30 - 10:00 PM

Join NCP's Film and Mind series online!

 

Two people holding each other and walking.(1960, 90 minutes)

Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature film, remains the definitive manifesto of the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), and is often referred to as the first modern (as in self-reflective) movie. A deceptively simple story about a young couple on the lam after a robbery, it is both a homage to cinema with its multiple references to movies, and, with its innumerable innovations in style and departures from tradition, a critique of all that has been done before. Reflecting the alienation and antagonism of the youth of the day, it was a harbinger of the culture conflicts and gender wars that were to define the decade. Highlighting how culture and the psyche reflect each other, it begs the question as to which is more authentic – the mirror image or the “real” self?

*Available on Amazon Prime and others. See link below.

Registration will be open until 4:30 PM on the day of the event. We cannot take registrations after this time.  

Schedule

*** All times listed are Pacific Time (PT) ***

Discussion (on Zoom): 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM - We will hear from our discussants and explore the film together. 

We will not watch the film together prior to the discussion. Participants should watch the film beforehand or begin screening on their own before 6:15 pm PT.

1.5 CE/CME credits
 

Learning Objectives:

As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:

  • Analyze and describe the role of narcissism in relation to alienation, through the study of the two protagonists, illustrated with clinical vignettes
  • Discuss gendered psycho-politics, as seen in the movie and correlate it with examples from clinical practice

Bibliography:

Zaretsky. (2007). Psychoanalysis, the family and personal life: narcissism and the “relational revolution” of the 1960s. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y El Caribe, 18(1), 81–102.

Dalal. (2020). Intimate Others and the Othering of intimates: The gendered psycho-politics of the entangled relational. Group Analysis, 53(4), 421–445. https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316420953332

 

Discussants:

 

Alain J.-J. Cohen, PhD 
Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he has spent his career, Alain J.-J. Cohen has a pluri-disciplinary and multi-national formation in clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis (from Freud and Lacan to today’s multiple schools of psychoanalysis), film studies, the history and analysis of cinema, aesthetics and philosophy, literary theory, semiotics (C.S. Peirce, A.-J. Greimas, to the present), and art history. Through his teaching and research, Cohen has been dedicated to the dissemination of (1) psychoanalysis, (2) cinema studies, and (3) semiotics. His compelling presentations have drawn the attention of academic and psychoanalytic audiences worldwide. More about Dr. Cohen and a list of his publications available here: https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/ajjcohen.html
 
Shahin Sakhi, MD, PhD is a psychiatrist in private practice, clinical faculty at UCLA psychiatry Department.

 

Discussion Moderator:

Thomas M. Brod, MD. Dr. Brod coordinates the NCP Film & Mind Program with Apurva Shah, MD.

 

Target audience: Mental health professionals and open to the public interested in psychoanalytic perspectives. Open to members and the community.

Level: Every level.

1.5 CE/CME Credits

$15 with CE Credit

$7 without Credit 

 

This is an online event. What you need to know:

  • Register below and you will get an email with the Zoom link. The Zoom link will also be sent on the day of the event after 4:30 PM.
  • The discussion will start at 8:30 pm in the Zoom Meeting room. Participants should watch the film on their own before joining.
  • We cannot provide technical support for the viewing of the movie, but will be in the Zoom meeting to help facilitate the discussion.  

 

Where to get the movie:  Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Apple TV and more (click for options)

 

"How do I get my CE/CME Credit?"

  1. Pre-Register below
    • If you are registering for the first time you will receive a welcome email. You must follow the directions in this email to complete your registration in order to access your certificates. 
  2. Sign in and sign out during the event (by typing your full name into the chat). This is how we record your attendance at the event.
  3. Wait 5 business days
  4. Download your Certificate on the NCP website

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

-Updated July 2021-

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The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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