ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author views psychoanalysis as a method for the treatment of mental suffering in the same way as orthopaedics is a method for treating fractures. The only way people can restore meaning to analysis or continue to give it some meaning is to think of it as the treatment of mental suffering. There is a difference between the psychoanalytic interpretation of a film and using a film as a vehicle to explain, clarify or highlight a possibly highly complex psychoanalytic concept. One of the greatest difficulties human species faces is how to manage proto-emotions and proto-sensoriality. The chapter presents some of the clinical cases such as Federico Fellini dreams that follow the path: a state of mind that rescues itself from an autisticoid situation and enters one that is oneiroid, a ludic space where people do not ask too many questions but agree to play the game of life.
