Screening and Discussion of “The Lives of Others”

A.A. Brill Library Film Event:

Screening and Discussion of “The Lives of Others”

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Post-Film Discussant: Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D.

In 1984, Gerd Wiesler, secret-service Stasi operative of East Germany stalks, via videotape, the love and art of a couple whose sympathies lie with West Germany.  We, as a classically voyeuristic movie audience, are challenged to account for the sleazy political Stasi stalker’s amazing transformation  into a humane lover of the “primal scene” couple that was his quarry. Following the film presentation, Dr. Gediman will summarize her comments on the film as they appeared in her recent book Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

Dr. Helen K. Gediman is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, and in full time practice in Manhattan. The writer of numerous published papers on psychoanalysis, she has also authored or co-authored five psychoanalytic books. Her latest are her selected papers, Building Bridges, and Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy. The latter is a selection of the CIPS series on The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytic study of Erotomania, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and Invasion of Privacy, and will provide the basis of her discussion of the film.