By Meg Harris Williams
The contents of this publication symbolize a sequence of experiments in dramatizing Bion’s A Memoir of the Future, the first one being an unfinished movie all started in India within the Eighties and directed via Kumar Shahani, "epic" artfilm maker, so much of whose motion pictures were produced in Hindi. The movie used to be encouraged and initiated by means of Bombay psychoanalyst Udayan Patel, and backed through the Roland Harris academic belief. the solid of actors integrated Jalal Agha, Tom adjust, Robert Burbage, Nicholas Clay, Neil Cunningham, Carol Drinkwater, Peter Firth, Nigel Hawthorne, Shona Morris, Jonathan web page (as a child), Angela Pleasence, Juliet Reynolds, and Alaknanda Samarth.
The filmscript and a observation are the following incorporated, including a story poem written for Alaknanda Samarth who performed the Ayah of Bion’s formative years, and a playscript written for Tom modify who performed the daddy. The play is because of be first played in Bombay and Delhi in February 2016.
An appendix reprints a psychoanalytic learn of Memoir by means of Donald Meltzer, who was once heavily enthusiastic about the construction of the unique film.
The e-book is illustrated by means of screenshots from the movie and the publication includes video extracts.
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WILFRED: Nowhere. FATHER (suspiciously): What have you done to your sister? WILFRED: Nothing. WILFRED comes to his AYAH in the garden. She is squeezing out clothes she has been washing. AYAH: Do you know Putana, baba? WILFRED: Who is Putana? AYAH: She is a wicked goddess. WILFRED: She? 29 30 THE BECOMING ROOM AYAH: Yes. She loves to eat young children – boys! So baba, after one sacrifice, she wanted more. So the villagers, they came to Krishna, and what did they ask? They begged him to help them.
My inchoate ambitions … Who’ll buy my nightmares? COLMAN: I will. If you have tears to shed, shed them now. BION: Are we destined finally to become one of Nature’s discarded experiments? Like the dinosaurs? 44 THE BECOMING ROOM COLMAN: Why ‘finally’? This conversation may be a prelude to yet another transformation. Spirit or soul as we call it. The cloud-capp’d towers shall dissolve. Homo sapiens! BION: Just fancy, if there was something about ideas which made them generative! Do Mendel’s laws apply – do we know anything about the transmission of ideas?
Mrs Rhodes seen against holly and mistletoe over the church porch. Christmas carols overlap, overlaid with the voice of WILFRED calling ‘Mummy! ’ MRS RHODES: Heaton has made Wilfred overeat himself again, I’ll be bound. Poor boy! He wants to be with his Mummy in India. KATHLEEN enters defiantly and confronts her mother. KATHLEEN: Mother! Do we have to attend church service this morning, just because Father says so! MAN’s devil-cape suggested in frame, as his voice is heard: Voice-over (MAN): You will be required to do a different sort of service today, not what your father would have wanted.