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THE BLACK HOLE (2008) Director: Olly and Phil Cast: Napoleon Rayn Genre: Dark-comedy  Run-time: 2 mins 49 seconds  (screenshot from the short film) The Black Hole is a short film, directed by Olly Williams and Phil Sampson, released in the year 2008 by Future Shorts. This film starring just one actor, Napoleon Rayn, typically portrays greed and temptation from a humorous point of view. The film follows the fairy-tale journey of how a sleep-deprived, lowly office worker discovers a portable portal- 'the black hole', and what he does with it. This film with a run-time of less than 3 minutes and not a single dialouge, successfully captures one of the seven deadly sins, Avarice or Greed. It starts off by showing a tired office worker copying documents from a photocopy machine, when it jams and he punches the buttons and kicks the machine. The photocopier releases a piece of paper with a black circle at the middle. The man eventually discovers that it was not an ordinary paper, bu...

CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE ESSAY:    A NOTE ON THE UNCONSCIOUS IN  PSYCHOANALYSIS  BY  SIGMUND FREUD Sigmund Freud      The essay, A Note On The Unconscious In Psychoanalysis, written in 1912 by the founder of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, opens with the sentence, I wish to expound in a few words and as plainly as possible what the term  'unconscious' has come to mean in Psychoanalysis and in Psychoanalysis alone. As written, Freud, in his essay, delves into the notion of the unconscious mind, how it differs from the conscious mind, and how it relates to psychoanalysis. He presents multiple significant ideas, and insights, along with examples. He begins by describing the unconscious as mental content that can be recalled but which is not currently in our consciousness or awareness. We have no way of knowing what form or shape it exists in the unconscious, just that it is present in some latent state. Thus it can be said that an unconscious...