A story about class struggle in modern Korean capitalist society, PARASITE (2019, 132 min) works as an allegory about the human psyche and its defenses when viewed through a psychoanalytic lens. The mind needs a way to keep threatening feelings from breaking into and taking over conscious awareness. The same goes for groups, which are often held together by a shared desire to keep something intolerable from entering the collective interior.
In this class, we’ll explore psychoanalytic ideas on contagion, keeping out, and being-with to consider the psychological themes in this Oscar-winning Bong Joon-ho film, particularly how an individual can experience contact with divergent subjectivities as an infestation of toxic “otherness”.
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