Cinema

Films often portray on the screen elements of our own inner world, with its fantasies, fears, trauma and passions. Looking at the screen is like looking at a mirror in which you see portrayed your own inner life and drama. Therefore the cinema can depict any of these aspects of yourself.

The cinema is sometimes a place of romance, of sexual contact, or fantasies about it. Films enlarge the area of your experience, just as dreams do, so some dreams might use this image to suggest vicarious experience.

The cinema may also be a dream environment in which you can have an objective view of parts of your own personality – as if they were film characters.