ABSTRACT
The 2015 film The Wolfpack portrays a glimpse into the sheltered lives of a family on their journey of self-revealing and healing. Confronting the Other entails the hard work of individuation, something Oscar was unable to do in his patriarchal role. Leaving the secure, if proscriptive, castle of the wounded anrti-father would not be a day trip to Coney Island. Instead, making sense of their history, the Wolfpack boys must navigate the pixels and prisms of what seems to matter in a cinematic Weltanschauung. Such stories are healing because they express the life journey, albeit in dramatic form, and the compensatory processes in the collective unconscious that works to balance one-sidedness, and the sickness and constant deviations of human consciousness.
