Freud's Last Session

Title: "... and as I slept, I dreamed a dream." (0:00)

Voice on radio: "... introducing Adolf Hitler..." 
Hitler speaks. (0:01)

Janie Moore tells Professor C. S. “Jack” Lewis, "London’ll be bedlam..." (0:02)

Sigmund Freud tells his daughter Anna, "Dr. Schur will be here with the morphine within the hour..." 
”A discussion about the true indication of insanity...” 
Anna: ”So the surest indication of sanity would be the ability to change your mind.” (0:04)

Bottle labeled MORPHINE (0:06)

Sigmund tells Lewis, referring to his dog Jofi, "... He’s highly intelligent..." 
”... He’s also my emotional barometer.” 
”Well, if a patient is calm, Jofi always stretches out at my feet, but if a patient is agitated...he never takes his eyes away from the patient.” 
”... he’s also a fanatic about punctuality.”
Lewis: ”... Habit, I suppose.” 
Sigmund: ”... habit...” (0:07)

Dr. Ernest Jones tells Sigmund, "They’ve never given the Goethe prize to a psychoanalyst before." 
Sigmund: ”They’ve never had psychoanalysts in Germany before.” (0:11)

Lewis tells Sigmund, referring to God, ”... man doesn’t have to be an imbecile to believe in him, and those of us who do are not suffering from an obsessional neurosis.” 
Sigmund: ”... as I slept I dreamed a dream...” 
Lewis: ”... we devoured your every book to discover our latent perversions... I was shocked...” 
Sigmund: ”... embrace a ludicrous dream...” (0:12)

Anna tells Mr. Hensell, "... I’m sure you know all there is to know about adolescent narcissism." (0:15)

Sigmund asks Lewis, "... mostly fantasies?" 
”I’ve spent most of my life examining fantasies, trying to make sense of dreams... Maybe it is all a dream in the end...” 
”All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe wrote that, and he went mad...” 
Lewis, referring to his mother: ”... She died when I was quite young.” 
Lewis: ”My father was consumed with grief... my life’s greatest trauma...” 
Sigmund: ”... our deepest cravings are never satisfied, are they?” (0:16)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "Don’t be a fool." (0:23)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... Focus on me... Focus on me..." (0:24)

Sigmund and Lewis in church graveyard
Lewis: ”... send sympathy cards?” (0:25)

By telephone, Sigmund tells Max, "... I need medicine..." (0:27)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... kept me terribly confused..." 
”Why should I take Christ’s claim to be God more seriously than the numerous patients I’ve treated... who claim to be Christ?... those poor wretched patients of mine were all raving lunatics...” 
Lewis: ”... Did you find a single person whose concept of reality was otherwise sound?” (0:32)

Her lover Dorothy Burlingham tells Anna, "Well, we don’t know how HItler will respond." (0:35)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... I shall not live to see another Adolf Hitler." 
”I have here a piece of paper signed by... Herr Hitler... What a wonderfully... imbecilic possibility...” 
”... I need my medicine...” 
”Dr. Sigmund Freud with his oral obsession...” (0:40)

Anna lectures: "React with shock..." (0:47)

By telephone, Sigmund tells Anna, "... He says he’ll call my prescription to a pharmaceutical chemist shop." 
”... I need medicine.” 
Professor: ”... It's called an attachment disorder. Idolizing one’s parents past adolescence isn’t a virtue. It’s a compulsion.”
Anna: ”Well, thanks for the analysis.” (0:48)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "Yes, she also had a private psychoanalytical practice for children... I hoped that was my own narcissistic fear...” 
”... does homosexuality offend you?... Homosexuality is not immoral...” 
”... that fear comes from the castration complex.” 
”Without this fear, these impulses cannot be counted.” (0:50)

Anna tells Dorothy, "I’m worried about my father." (0:51)

Dorothy tells Anna, “If any patient of yours showed this kind of codependency, you’d diagnose them with an attachment disorder.” (0:52)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... I bid farewell to thee, my phallic and anal stage, and I regress to thee, my oral stage, whatever that is." 
”... we made considerable progress uncovering and overcoming our repressions today.”
”Yes, psychoanalysis is inherently sexual.” 
Lewis: “... we infantilize it...” 
Sigmund: ”... it’s a mindless, sadistic cruelty, really.” 
Lewis: ”... you say homosexuality isn’t immoral.” 
Lewis: “My father and I made our peace before he died...” (0:53)

Flashback to Lewis’ experience of WWI (0:57)

Lewis reacts to the death of his comrade soldier Paddy Moore. (1:00)

Janie Moore tells Lewis, referring to her son, "The letters you wrote to me after Paddy’s death..." (1:02)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... I would like to know whether your conversion or your battle trauma caused you a newfound virginity." (1:04)

Ernest tells Sigmund, "I’ve been told about a first-rate psychoanalytic facility..." (1:06)

Anna tells a woman, "... My father’s having a medical crisis..." (1:07)

Ernest tells Sigmund, "... Anna spent years in treatment for... a complex, a complex which proves she is capable of normal sexual behavior." 
”A complex that most often stems from an unhealthy paternal attachment.” (1:08)

Anna tells Dr. Schur, referring to Sigmund, "... he needs his medicine." (1:09)

Dorothy tells Anna, "My therapy sessions are mine alone. Find your own therapist." 
Anna: ”It must be very convenient to live upstairs from your therapist.” (1:10)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... I am a passionate disbeliever who is obsessed with belief and worship." 
”... I am shocked. I am shocked.” 
”... the cherubic little altar boy, Adolf Hitler... would agree with you...” 
”... we have lost our nerve and our confidence in ourselves...” 
Sigmund: ”... my daughter... Sophie... she died from the Spanish influenza... I wish that cancer had eaten into my brain... so that I could hallucinate God...” (1:13)

Anna: "It’s the same fantasy I’ve always had..." (1:19)

Sigmund tells Lewis, "... I know what you people think of suicide..." 
Lewis: ”But you’re planning to kill yourself.” 
Sigmund: ”You really are... like a reformed alcoholic...” 
Lewis: ”... since we’re intrinsically bisexual?” 
Sigmund, referring to Anna: ”... She’s a member of the psychoanalytic society...” 
Sigmund: ”Sadomasochistic fantasies.” 
Lewis: ”These fantasies, were they based on Anna’s patients’ treatments?” 
Sigmund: ”Based on her own analysis.” 
Lewis: ”And who was her analyst... who was her analyst?” 
”... psychoanalysis is inherently sexual...” 
”My objection to church music is that it trivializes the emotions that I already feel.” 
Sigmund: ”Wow. Is that your final diagnosis?...” 
Lewis: ”I also think that you’re terribly selfish...” 
Sigmund: ”... You.. did not behave like a man who took great comfort in his last days... you are a coward. We’re all cowards before death.” 
Sigmund: ”It was madness...” 
Lewis: ”Well, there’s a greater madness...” 
Sigmund, referring to Saint Dymphna: ”She was the patron saint of the mad and the lost.” 
”One of us is the fool...” (1:20)

Radio announcer: "His Majesty King George..." (1:33)

Anna tells Lewis, referring to Sigmund, "I have his medicine." 
Lewis: ”There’s no need to worry.” (1:34)

Title: "Sigmund Freud ended his life with the assistance of Dr. Schur... September 23, 1939... As the founder of psychoanalysis, his influential theories on human behaviour have forever changed modern psychology and Western culture." 
Title: ”Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham lived together in Freud’s London home for the next 40 years, well respected for their work in psychiatry. Anna is considered to be the founder of child psychoanalysis.” (1:41)