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Source: NPR "On the Media"

Roundup

5-6-06

Projecting Freud [4min]

Sigmund Freud was born 150 years ago this weekend. He’s certainly pop culture’s most-cited psychoanalyst, but his influence on media doesn’t end there -- Freud’s ideas are cinema staples: flashbacks, projection, not to mention the sexual stuff. Brooke Gladstone speaks with Andrea Sabbadini, a psychoanalyst and chairman of the European Psychoanalytical Film Festival.

Read entire article at NPR "On the Media"