Bergman's Persona

By Don Fredericksen

Adam Michiewicz University Press, Poznan Poland, 2005, ISBN 83-232-1512-X, 130pp

Although much has been written about this film, this is the only Jungian study of Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film Persona, commonly listed by critics and scholars as among the ten-best films in film history.

Contents:

  • Personal and Methodological Preface
  • Chapter One: Bergman and the Liminal Cinema
  • Chapter Two:Prologue: The Call to Hades
  • Chapter Three: To Go Silent, or to be Silenced?
  • Chapter Four: Introvert Meets Extravert
  • Chapter Five: The World is on Fire
  • Chapter Six: The Hopeless Dream of Being
  • Chapter Seven: Liminal Time and Space
  • Chapter Eight: Alma's Anamnesis and Transference, Part One
  • Chapter Nine: Alma's Anamnesis and Transference, Part Two
  • Chapter Ten: Two Betrayals and the Breaking of Vessels
  • Chapter Eleven: Alma's Nekyia, Part One
  • Chapter Twelve" Alma's Nekyia, Part Two
  • Chapter Thirteen: "Nothing" and the Regressive Restoration of the Persona
  • Chapter Fourteen: The Film with Four Endings
  • Chapter Fifteen: Bergman and Prophetic Art

"This book is marvelous: the first reading of the film that actually makes sense of it."
Robin Wood, Professor of Film emeritus, York University, and author of Ingmar Bergman (1969)

"Don Fredericksen's book leaves you with the feeling that all works do that hit the nail on the head: that the treasure has been there all along--just waiting to be dusted off by the discerning analyst."
Maaret Koskinin, Professor of Film, Stockholm University, curator of the Ingmar Bergman archive, and author of I begynnelsen var ordet: Ingmar Bergman och hans Tidiga Forfattarskap (2002)

"Bergman's Persona shows us the depths of a truly mythic art form. What Joseph Campbell does for myth, Don Fredericksen does for movies. He reveals their psychological depth."
Jonathan Young, Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives, Pacifica Graduate Institute

This book is available from:

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