STUDY CIRCLE – 8th – 12th May, 2023

Venue: Auroville Film Institute, India Space, Bharat Nivas
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm

Mon |08-05-23 |Screening
Dangerous Method (2004, 99 mins.), David Cronenberg
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

Tues |09-05-23 |Reading
Jungian Studies :
Projections Identifying and working with our symbolic projections

Wed |10-05-23 |Reading of an Academic Paper
European dreams, Tamil Land : Auroville and the paradox of
postcolonial utopia.
This 2012 paper written by Jessica Namakkal in the journal for the study of radicalism, explores the effects Utopian dreams have on Auroville’s relationship with its neighboring villages.

Thurs |11-05-23 |Reading of a Thesis
Imagining the other
The above thesis by Jukka Jouhki brings to light the orientalism of the west and the occidentalism of the east in determining the Tamil-European relations in Auroville and South India

Fri |12-05-23 |Reading +Screening
The Killers Reading of a short story by Ernest Hemmingway followed by Screening of short film by the same name by Andrei Tarkovsky

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