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
Repository Citation
Eisenstein, Paul, "Toward "What Bleeds or Trembles": Reflections on Bergman's Wild Strawberries" (2016). English Faculty Scholarship. 10.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/eng_fac/10
DOI
http://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2016.0011
Version
Publisher's Version