Category: Film

‘Spirited Away’: The Vertical Labyrinth (A Depth-Informed Perspective)

Chihiro steps through a dark tunnel, and into an unknown and abandoned world. The bathhouse represents what becomes lost to time, in what is sacrificed to the up and down elements of life, in the parts of ourselves that have become “employed” to do our bidding, repressed or ignored, treated as creatures or monsters when […]

Blade Runner 2049: The Search for a Real Self (An Object Relations Perspective)

K: The Regressed Ego, and The False Self K represents the schizoid personality, a person who appears loyal, dependable, committed, and unshakeable to others, though he is actually completely flat, joyless, and disconnected from his personal life, and emotionally withdrawn within his relationships to others. K experiences damage in punches, cuts, and deep injuries, but

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