ABSTRACT

A depth psychological analysis draws from both tapes, cutting, editing and mixing all the sequences from both cameras to create a meaningful narration, a new myth. The psychic identity derives from a fictionalization of facts, which turns the events into a story, a personal myth. Interpretations, as half a century of literary criticism has demonstrated, are never hermetically sealed. The human freedom, by its very nature, makes any definitive version impossible. Fictionalization is always at work, working the life events into revised narratives. A myth combines the objective reality of facts, with the subjective meaning; it is a cinematographic montage, a construction. Orthodoxies struggle to enclose individuals in a dominant myth that works like the ubiquitous, invisible system software in the background of all computers. Psychological wisdom involves a regular editing of the scripted roles, to find the persona that is adapted to the talents as well as to the needs of the community.