The article also shows how Bergman benefited from the achievements of the American anti‑psychiatry movement and how his literary texts fit into wider cultural contexts in the tradition of melancholy, carnivalesque and abject writing. The somatic, psychic and psychosomatic insecurities of the narrator not only occupy a central place here, but they are also one of the basic themes of the Swedish director’s whole oeuvre (they appear, for instance, in the related narrative of Fanny and Alexander). Following a slew of Swedish commentators, the article shows the problematic nature of reading Bergman’s text autobiographically, instead focusing on numerous representations of the body and illness. Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to show the work of Ingmar Bergman, in particular his 1987 quasi‑autobiography The Magic Lantern, from the perspective of the medical humanities. Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern TV Movie 1988 1 h IMDb RATING 7.3 /10 22 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary A documentary about Ingmar Bergmans childhood and life. Reviewed by Gerald Weales The magic lantern of Bergman's title is, first of all, the cinematograph that helped the boy Ingmar escape the family that somehow failed him: 'There was no love where I lived and breathed. Jerzego Grotowskiego Keywords: medical humanities Ingmar Bergman somatoaesthetics abject disease Demons and the Body: Ingmar Bergman’s “The Magic Lantern” from a Somatopoetic Perspectiveĭemons and the Body: Ingmar Bergman’s “The Magic Lantern” from a Somatopoetic Perspective Author(s): Jan BalbierzĬontributor(s): George Lisowski (Translator)

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