That Oceanic Feeling: Point Break

Director Kathryn Bigelow, a painter by training, works within and outside the lines in POINT BREAK (1991, 122 min) a cult classic about an FBI agent in pursuit of a big break. Some of the action sequences defy language, but we are going to try to put into words what this film stirs up about the self apprehending the other. 

Freud perhaps put it best when he made mention, in Civilization and its Discontents, of an "oceanic feeling," and in this class, we’ll turn to ideas on flying dreams by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint as a way to consider the crosscurrents.

This class is taught by guest instructors Francoise Eipper MD and Alice Huang MD of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. Fran and Alice are psychoanalysts and lovers of film. There will be a concurrent course offered through OPC that you can find here.

Class size will be limited to 18.

Questions? Email us at education@moviemadness.org