Join the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis’ (FCP) Inaugural Fellows for a screening of A Different Man, followed by a lively psychoanalytic conversation exploring themes of identity, masking, the gaze, and the longing to belong in an image-saturated culture.
Drawing on the work of Winnicott, Lacan, and other analytic thinkers, we’ll consider how the film speaks to enduring clinical questions — the True and False Self, narcissistic injury, doubling, envy, and the tension between appearance and authenticity — as well as how these dynamics unfold in our current socio-cultural moment.
In a time when identity is increasingly curated, performed, politicized, and publicly negotiated, this film offers a provocative opportunity to reflect together on what remains constant in psychic life and what feels newly intensified.
We welcome candidates, faculty, and colleagues interested in film, theory, and thoughtful dialogue across perspectives. (Feel free to bring a friend.)