May 17, 2007...9:53 am

“The Sandman”, via E.T.A. Hoffman, Sigmund Freud and… Rich Ragsdale

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I have been teaching E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Sandman” and Freud’s “The Uncanny” in my Sumer Intersession course and just found this brilliant film by Rich Ragsdale, a film maker out of Venice, California. I tip my hat to Mr. Ragsdale for this film, it’s truly magnificent and I can’t wait to share it with my students. Here’s Mr. Ragsdale’s youtube homepage.

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  • thank you so much for the link. Just finished reading the sandman (in hebrew….) and loved this short film.

  • I am psychoanalytic student at the NJ Institute for Psychoanalysis. I stumbled across your web site as a result of my new found interest in ETA Hoffman. I recently wrote a psychoanalytic analysis of the Nutcracker (ballet) due to be published soon with a local psychoanalytic journal. As I traced the story back to Hoffman I was pleasantly surprised to find that Freud was also interested in Hoffman. I have not yet read the Sandman but intend to. Thanks for putting this up.

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