帕布斯特的《一个灵魂的秘密》(Geheimnisse einer Seele, 1926)是第一部在电影叙事中严肃地尝试使用新弗洛伊德学派精神分析原理的影片。渴望使用科学方法解决心理问题,使得《一个灵魂的秘密》成为新客观派的另一种变体。这部影片实际上是一个案例研究,一个看似普通的男人,患上了一种刀具恐惧症,他试图从一个精神分析学家那里得到治疗。尽管影片对精神分析的描述太过简单,但一些表现主义风格的梦境段落给影片增添相当多的趣味。 (波德维尔等《世界电影史》第2版,第154—155页。)
Elias dreams of a family. Christian is happy about their free existence in an open relationship, where they have time and money to travel, buy expensive designer furniture and love each other. Elias has been able to keep his longing at bay for a long time, but when he starts his new job as a psychologist at a school home, it is as if the burden is overflowing. He must face the fact that a life without a human responsibility for others than himself can never be a happy life for him.
Appofeniacs is a riff on the term “apophenia” which is the tendency to find connections or patterns in things that are unrelated or random — common examples being confirmation bias and paranoia. T