“Freud’s Last Session” brings the father of Psychoanalysis to the eve of war and with a sharp tongue against CS Lewis
Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud revolutionized the world and told people that they had desires – and there’s no point in denying it. World War II also changed the world in another way. “Freud’s Last Session” is a film that features the father of psychoanalysis (played by master Anthony Hopkins) on the eve of the war and with his sharp tongue against CS Lewis (Matthew Goode), the creator of Narnia.
The film also features Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), Sigmund’s daughter who had a sexuality that was, let’s say, different from the norm of the time, queer even. She has a hidden, covered-up, frightened and (in the 1930s) forbidden love affair with Dorothy (Jodi Balfour).
A raid by the Gestapo, the Nazi police, takes Freud and his daughter into exile in London, England. The war reaches there too, and it is on this eve of conflict that the film shows Freud and Lewis at war – with ideas, with their bodies and with themselves.
Narnia’s father is Catholic, Irish and full of certainties built up over the course of his life by society. Freud has a sharp tongue and in two sentences, at most, dismantles a centuries-old myth. Brilliant. Being homosexual is something common, LGBT+ is human diversity, argues the doctor, offending the writer – and provoking him.
It is not even remotely equivalent to a therapy session, but it already gives several clues about how Psychoanalysis is an ally of happiness – especially for the LGBTQIA+ community. Available on Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play and Apple TV.
By Ezatamentchy
Source: Maxima
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