English Faculty Scholarship

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2016

Publication Title

Project MUSE

Publisher

John Hopkins University Press

Keywords

Psycholanalysis, Human Relationships, Pedantry

Abstract

By way of its protagonist Isak Borg, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) enacts and exemplifies a psychoanalytic understanding of change. Bergman’s film, in its form and content, presents and ultimately overturns a narcissistic world of “living death”—a form of living closed off to constitutive features of desire and to meaningful relationships with others. By the film’s end, rather than a “living death,” Bergman stages a life that has been achieved—a life that embraces anew the risks and joys of desire.

First Page

229

Last Page

234

Volume

73

Issue

2

DOI

http://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2016.0011

Version

Publisher's Version

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