Freud - The Secret Passion (1962)

Directors

John Huston

Cast

Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eileen Herlie, Fernand Ledoux, David McCallum, Rosalie Crutchley, David Kossoff, Joseph Fürst, Alexander Mango, Leonard Sachs, Eric Portman

The story

The film begins with a voice-over narration by director John Huston, describing the story as Sigmund Freud's "descent into a region almost as black as hell itself--man's unconscious--and how he let in the light." Huston's voice-overs also occur at the film's ending and substitute for Freud's thoughts in some scenes, In 1885 Vienna, young doctor Sigmund Freud has completed his medical training and finds himself at odds with hospital head Theodore Meynert, especially regarding the status of "hysteria" as a psychological disorder. With his mother Amalia's encouragement, Freud goes to Paris to study the condition with Dr. Jean-Marin Charcot,…

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