Double Feature: Discovering Our Hidden Fantasies in Film

Herbert H. Stein

apr 2014 · Open Road Media

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a) What recent smash hit movie secretly depicted fear of the female breast? b) Name some recent films that were preoccupied with castration anxiety? c) Would you be surprised to know that reliving our childhood Oedipal fixations helps us to better understand adult-themed films? You'll find the answers to these and many similarly intriguing questions in DOUBLE FEATURE: DISCOVERING OUR HIDDEN FANTASIES IN FILM by Herbert Stein, M.D. Dr. Stein, a highly-respected Freudian psychiatrist and passionate moviegoer, literally puts our favorite films on the couch and shares his confidential findings with us. In a book that could become a cult classic, he lays bare the truth about unconscious and subconscious themes running through popular culture with fresh, jolting, and often moving insights into some of the most popular films ever made, including JURASSIC PARK, FIELD OF DREAMS, FORRST GUMP, THE SIXTH SENSE, and THE USUAL SUSPECTS. However perceptive we may think ourselves, this book reveals how we unconsciously respond to deeply-embedded archetypal themes in movies and enables us to re-experience films we love in a completely fresh way. Indeed, DOUBLE FEATURE makes our favorite films even more resonant and enables us to articulate even more deeply what it is we love about them. 

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Dr. Herbert H. Stein is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. He is on the teaching faculty of the NYU psychoanalytic Institute. For several years, he has been the editor of the PANY Bulletin (Bulletin of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York), as well as a regular contributor of articles on psychoanalysis and the cinema, most of which are included, in modified form, in this volume.