Star Wars is well known, timeless, universal, and incorporated into shared culture. Trainees have grown up with the movies, and based on their enduring popularity, attending psychiatrists are likely to have seen them too. This article highlights psychopathology from the Dark Side of Star Wars films which can be used in teaching. These include as follows: borderline and narcissistic personality ...

This paper argues that Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night (1623) are driven by their unconscious desire to possess their brothers who serve as father-figures for them. By applying Carl Jung's theory of Electra Complex and a related Freudian theory of penis envy, I will seek to make a study of the phallic and the post-Oedipal stages in the psychosexual development of the two ...

The psychoanalytic exploration of the analyst's erotic countertransference has remained a subject rarely addressed in open collegial dialogue. This paper addresses this professional reticence as a manifestation of two interwoven resistences. The first, an avoidance of the physiologically based substrata of self and object organization growing out of certain preconceptions derived from a structu...