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Toward “What Bleeds or Trembles”: Reflections on Bergman’s Wild Strawberries
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 229-234
- 10.1353/aim.2016.0011
- Article
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Abstract:
By way of its protagonist Isak Borg, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) enacts and exemplifies a psychoanalytic understanding of change. Bergman’s film, in its form and content, presents and ultimately overturns a narcissistic world of “living death”—a form of living closed off to constitutive features of desire and to meaningful relationships with others. By the film’s end, rather than a “living death,” Bergman stages a life that has been achieved—a life that embraces anew the risks and joys of desire.