Extended Reading
  • Hunter 2021-12-22 08:01:02

    Several clever transitions and shots

    A classic feature film about Freud's psychoanalytic theory. At least this is the second time I have watched this film. I only focused on the plot before. This time I was quite impressed by some shots and transition methods, such as Parker and Bergman walking in the valley. Bergman said that the...

  • Velda 2022-03-22 09:02:01

    repression (defense mechanism)

    Countertransference Women make the best psychoanalysis, till they fall in love. After that, they make the best patients. transfer of affects The mind isn't everything. The heart can see deeper sometimes. You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there. The evidence was...

Spellbound quotes

  • Dr. Alex Brulov: Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.

  • Constance Petersen: I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.

    Anthony Edwardes: Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.

    Constance Petersen: They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.

    Anthony Edwardes: Which is isn't, eh?

    Constance Petersen: Of course not. People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.

    Anthony Edwardes: Or... or... sometimes for no reason at all.

    Constance Petersen: That's not the point. The point is that people read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.

    Anthony Edwardes: And when they find out differently, then they get sick and have to be analyzed, eh?

    Constance Petersen: Yes, very often.

    Anthony Edwardes: Professor, you're suffering from "mogo on the gogo."

    Constance Petersen: I beg your pardon!