The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Description: In this presentation, Homay King puts two concepts in dialogue, Édouard Glissant’s "opacity" and Jean Laplanche’s "enigmatic signifier." Together, these authors question the fiction of a self that is transparent to itself, the desire to render the other transparent, and the idea that comprehension and understanding are prerequisites to being in solidarity with one another. These ideas are applied to an interpretation of the film Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou, France, 2022), an elliptical portrait of a Korean-French adoptee revisiting the country of her birth.
Format: The evening will begin with a short presentation about the film followed by discussion. Please watch the film prior to the discussion. Return to Seoul is available to view with a premium subscription or rent on several platforms such as: Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, Apple TV, etc.
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DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHY
Homay King, PhD is Professor and Chair on the Catherine Fales Fellowship in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where she co-founded the Program in Film Studies. She is the author of two books, both published by Duke University Press: Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier, which inspired the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass, and Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality, which won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her essays on film, media, and contemporary art have appeared in Afterall, Afterimage, Camera Obscura, Discourse, Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, JCMS, liquid blackness, October, and over a dozen edited volumes including The Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné and The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective, and appears in a video essay on the Criterion Collection edition of Shanghai Express. Currently, she is working on a book project entitled Go West: A Mythology of California’s Silicon Valley, for which she was awarded an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
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REGISTRATION DETAILS
Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (MST)
Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event.
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Cost: There is a fee to register for this event. Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable.
- Nonmembers - $15
- Society Members - $10
- Students - $0 (Please list your school, university, or training institution during registration.)
Registration: Registration is required. Once registration is complete, you will receive a confirmation email. The deadline to register is February 21, 2025 by 12:00 PM (MT).
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POLICIES
Confidentiality: During all programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. Recording without authorization is prohibited.
Cancellation: There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the event.
To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.
