06/01/2026
Join us for a psychoanalytic exploration of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence with Peter Jansson (Academy for Psychoanalysis – Gothenburg).
The lecture examines how the film gives form to the Real in the Lacanian sense, engaging themes of silence, desire, and the limits of symbolisation.
Selected scenes from the film will be screened during the event.
In-person and online (Hybrid event)
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Contributions: 10 or reduced
Ingmar Bergman is one of the twentieth century’s most influential filmmakers, known for his stark visual language and his unflinching exploration of vulnerability, desire, loneliness, and the limits of communication. This event offers an accessible psychoanalytic reading of his enigmatic film The Silence, led by Peter Jansson, who reverses the usual approach by showing how the film itself gives form to Jacques Lacan’s notion of the Real. Rather than applying theory to cinema, the discussion follows how The Silence thinks, how it exposes what escapes language and confronts us with the limits of symbolisation. Designed for a broad audience, the session includes selected scenes that serve as entry points into Bergman’s world of strained intimacy, wordless tension, and emotional isolation, inviting viewers into a cinematic encounter with what remains unsayable.
