| Lutecium a non-school of Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis San Francisco, California |
| Film Event & Open House with Eric Essman, M.A. & Jacques Siboni, M.D. __________________________________________ 2008-2009 Series: Are you going Hollywood? By Eric Essman, M.A. |
“Hollywood,” a south-facing free-standing sign in the hills of the same name, is also a free-floating or loosely-tethered signifier for
corporate-manufactured fantasies, glittering transient celebrity, a certain style of deal making, creative accounting, lavish expenditures
and manipulations of capital, beauty, egotism and narcissistic self-absorption, mania, superficiality, and the commodification of
personality and talent. As the “Going Hollywood” criteria below are meant to suggest, Hollywood is a fluctuating state of mind or being
that crucially depends upon one’s registration in the Imaginary, where to be is to be seen…but also (and perhaps as a consequence)
where privacy is impossible or unbearable.
In its own peculiarly revealing form of self-exhibition, Hollywood is often brilliant at evoking its anxious, noirish, uncanny or extreme
states of being, as a series of remarkable films attests:
Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, A Star is Born, Day of the Locust, The Last Tycoon, The Loved One, Mulholland Drive, Lost
Highway, Barton Fink, The Player and Inland Empire, for example -- with even the lugubrious bitchiness of Whatever Happened to
Baby Jane? appended as a testament to the psychotic core, the depression, the precocious dementia and premature senescence, of
sadomasochistic spectacle. Join us when the Open House of the Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group “goes Hollywood” with a
screening and discussion of one of these mysterious, provocative, lurid, droll and very entertaining confessional films.
corporate-manufactured fantasies, glittering transient celebrity, a certain style of deal making, creative accounting, lavish expenditures
and manipulations of capital, beauty, egotism and narcissistic self-absorption, mania, superficiality, and the commodification of
personality and talent. As the “Going Hollywood” criteria below are meant to suggest, Hollywood is a fluctuating state of mind or being
that crucially depends upon one’s registration in the Imaginary, where to be is to be seen…but also (and perhaps as a consequence)
where privacy is impossible or unbearable.
- If your American Dream is spelled “id” or “ADD,” you’re going Hollywood.
- If your standard operating procedure is a manic defense, you’re going Hollywood.
- If your life dune buggies between memorializing the “Loved Ones” at Forest Lawn and apocalypsing now, you’re going Hollywood.
- If you cast imaginary pearls before real swine, you’re going Hollywood.
- If your patients live at your house, you’re going Hollywood.
- If you’re the Personal Assistant to the Personal Assistant of your Personal Assistant, you’re going Hollywood.
- If the freeway’s a mess and you elect to “go surface,” you’re going Hollywood.
- If you used to be a genius, you’re going Hollywood.
- If your through-line is a few lines, you’re going Hollywood.
- If you know all the angles, especially your best one, you’re going Hollywood.
- If every road leads to the desert or the coast, you’re going Hollywood.
- If somebody stole your idea, you’re going Hollywood.
- If you see dead people. . . if you identify with dead people, you’re going Hollywood; if dead people see you,you’re in Hollywood.
In its own peculiarly revealing form of self-exhibition, Hollywood is often brilliant at evoking its anxious, noirish, uncanny or extreme
states of being, as a series of remarkable films attests:
Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, A Star is Born, Day of the Locust, The Last Tycoon, The Loved One, Mulholland Drive, Lost
Highway, Barton Fink, The Player and Inland Empire, for example -- with even the lugubrious bitchiness of Whatever Happened to
Baby Jane? appended as a testament to the psychotic core, the depression, the precocious dementia and premature senescence, of
sadomasochistic spectacle. Join us when the Open House of the Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group “goes Hollywood” with a
screening and discussion of one of these mysterious, provocative, lurid, droll and very entertaining confessional films.
| ___________________________________________________________________ Saturday, March 21, 2009 12noon - 5pm Variety Club, Hobart Building, 582 Market St., San Francisco ______________________________ Going Hollywood II |
| Post-screening talk by Eric Essman, M.A., with Jacques Siboni, M.D., discussant. Meet & greet with Mark Olesko General admission: $30 / Students: $20 No one turned away for lack of funds View the Event Flyer |
If you cling unwittingly but desperately to the latest role you auditioned for, you’re “Going Hollywood.”
But unwittingly despairing, consciously manic or just mellow with a twist, please join us for “Going Hollywood II,” where Lutecium will
celebrate the lost highway refound: Mulholland Drive. Along with David Lynch’s (2001) droll, bipolar epic of hopes, terrors and
dismembered dreams, we’ll present Mark Olesko’s prize-winning Burn, which delivers the essence of film Noir (a lonely guy, city streets
at night, jazzy sax, and a femme fatale…or is that a femme fa-doll?) in ten minutes or less!
But unwittingly despairing, consciously manic or just mellow with a twist, please join us for “Going Hollywood II,” where Lutecium will
celebrate the lost highway refound: Mulholland Drive. Along with David Lynch’s (2001) droll, bipolar epic of hopes, terrors and
dismembered dreams, we’ll present Mark Olesko’s prize-winning Burn, which delivers the essence of film Noir (a lonely guy, city streets
at night, jazzy sax, and a femme fatale…or is that a femme fa-doll?) in ten minutes or less!
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