In the organizer's words:

LOST IN TRANSLATION (OmU)

Lecture and film series DAS "FREMDE" IM FILM in cooperation with the Institute for European Art History at Heidelberg University

Date: 21.01.2026, 18:00 hrs
Lecture: Theo Piegler - Specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine, psychiatry, psychotherapy (TP) and neurology, Hamburg

The Stranger: Psychoanalytical Perspectives

USA/JP 2003 | Director: Sofia Coppola | 102 min.

In a faceless hotel bar in Tokyo, an aging American actor and the bored young wife of a photographer meet: two jet-setters who are tired of their lives. A quiet tragicomedy about indifference and the fleetingness of existence; a nuanced chamber play that not only maintains a fine balance in the restrained approach of its protagonists, but also uses the foreign mirror of contemporary Japan as an unreal, dreamy and at the same time deeply emotional reflection of a metaphysical forlornness. (filmdienst.de)

The lecture is about the foreign, which plays a central role not only in the film Lost in Translation, but in various forms in all our lives. Based on Freud's understanding of the stranger as arising from our own fears, this "own stranger" is distinguished from the "foreign stranger".
the "foreign stranger". The latter breaks in on the individual from the outside, as shown, for example, by man's entry into this world and his end in death. Our unconscious defense mechanisms in dealing with this are outlined, as well as a more or less successful way of dealing with the foreign, in which "intersubjectivity" and the resulting "moments of encounter" play a central role.

Price information:

regular: € 10,- | reduced: € 8,- (Reduction: Guild pass, students, pupils, senior citizens over 65, severely disabled pass, social pass)