The Master: a perversion of psychoanalysis incited by the compulsion to repeat & The Anti-Freud: Bennett Roth’s Review of the Film The Master (angl-fr)

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is a psychological film, while at the same time it’s a film about psychology. No, not today’s psychology that has become denuded of adventure: a discipline obsessed with legitimising itself with outcome measures, random control trials (RCTs), and mind-numbing narrow-focus experimentation
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A dystopian film. “ THE MASTER”
For some time I was occupied by a search for a title for this review of ‘The Master’; Paul Thomas Anderson’s 70 mm film homage to post war alienation and deceit. Anderson is a student of film history while his being an auteur is essential to understanding his intent.
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