Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire Passion and Compulsion

This is an exciting and excited collection of essays by a talented group of psychoanalysts scholars and artists who take us right into the dark antic ribald mocking heart and brilliant mind of that enfant terrible of Spanish film--Pedro Almodóvar. His wildly joyous and viciously murderous transgressive social misfits loving and torturing each other leap out here on the edge of fragmentation - yet are held together by this analytic approach that never lectures but urges exploration. The chapters are a film festival--a carnival of his movies. Spanish history and how it holds trauma is also offered. Power desire and intense passion is fulsomely addressed by the editors; a fascinating read.Rosemary H. Balsam F.R.C. Psych. Assoc. Clinical Prof Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine. Training and Supervising Analyst Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Author: Womens Bodies in Psychoanalysis Routledge.