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Abstract
Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher (France, 2001), available on DVD from King Video at www.kino.com, is a viscerally clenching cinematic portrayal of enmeshment, repression, sadism, masochism, and destruction. The tight and conflicted characterization of Professor Erika Kohut, the piano teacher portrayed by Isabelle Huppert, reveals a dark labyrinth of mother-daughter bonds and bondage.
Notes
1I am indebted to Allannah Furlong, Ph.D., Pres., Société Psychanalytique de Montréal, for pointing out Klemmer's own parallel psychotic descent.
An earlier version of this article was presented in London Nov. 1, 2003 at the Second European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (EPFF II), sponsored by the International Psychoanalytic Association and the British Psychoanalytical Society. A version of this article also appeared in International Journal of Psychoanalysis (Summer, 2005) 86:2, pp. 1205–1212.