Archived: PAD Occasional Events 2013/2014
Thursday 19th June, 17.00 - 20.00, Room A0.28 (Film Studies)
A Film Screening of Simon Pummell's Shock Head Soul (2011). In 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber
published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. SHOCK
HEAD SOUL interleaves documentary interviews, fictional re-construction and CGI animation to
portray his story. See more here. Refreshments available from 5pm, screening to start at 5.30.
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Thursday 13th February 2014, 17.00 - 19.00, Room A0.28 (Film Studies). The Travel and Mobility
Studies Network and Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines present: A Film Screening: Jane
Campion's The Piano (1993).
'The Piano is not simply a story told from a woman's point of view. Other points of view are also
given expression. It is a story which envisions the 'logical' drama of external events, interactions and
exchanges as interwoven with a counterforce of inexpressible but nonetheless tangible passions.
This is more than a two-tiered layering of conscious and unconscious realms within the subject. The
ocean and Ada's music provide different, rhythmical analogies for this relationship. Whilst it visits
psychoanalytic regions, The Piano moves beyond the familiar Oedipal terrain, immersing us both
visually and aurally in a watery, muddy, semiotic imagery of maternal, nostalgic longing. Ada's desire
both emerges within this female imagery/imaginary and remains in excess of the narrative
circumstances in which she must also move.' - Sue Gillett, 'Lips and Fingers: Jane Campion's The
Piano', Screen (1995) 36 (3), 287. Here is a bibliography of critical literature on Jane Campion's The
Piano
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Wednesday 13th November 2013, 6pm-8pm. The Department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies and Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines present: Iago on the Couch. Room S0.21 (Social
Studies Building, University of Warwick).
A video created by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, featuring actor Simon Russell Beale, director Terry
Hands and analysts David Bell and Ignês Sodré, chaired by Don Campbell, former president of the
British Psychoanalytic Society.
Commentators:
John Fletcher, Associate Professor, Psychoanalytic Literary Theory, (Warwick)
Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor, Shakespeare Studies (Warwick)
Dr David Bell, (former president of the British Psychoanalytic Society)
Join us for wine and nibbles after the video and talks.
Please contact christian.smith@warwick.ac.uk for further information.