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THE WHALE: a film about trauma, obesity, and the undying hope to connect.
We are born with a drive to connect meaningfully with our caregivers. When that is thwarted by fate, deprivation, or hostility, our psyche rallies, it redirects our instincts to the imaginal world where archetypal forces can care for us, and our intolerable feelings can be hidden in a cast of inner characters. We still long for compassionate connection, but the inner figures of our caregivers are intolerable, so sometimes the archetypal mother hides in food—and we follow.
In the recent film “The Whale” starring Brendon Frasier, we meet his character Charlie, an English teacher trying to…
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