A two part documentary; 1 "Beginnings" 1885-1914, 2 "Breakthrough" 1915-1960., that recreates the historical path of psychoanalysis with, at the heart of this story, the destiny of an exceptional man. The first film presents three essential moments of the invention of psychoanalysis: the treatment of female hysteria at the end of the nineteenth century, the creation in Vienna around Freud of a first circle of disciples and the foundation of a movement international aim to spread worldwide the new healing technique of mental illnesses. The second film tells the transformations of psychoanalysis after the first world war: its expansion outside Vienna, its conquest of the great democratic countries and the exile to the United States and Great Britain of all the practitioners of continental Europe. driven out by Nazism and fascism.

Sigmund Freud - L'invention de la psychanalyse

A dancer and choreographer of genius, Vaslav Nijinski is now recognized as one of the fathers of Western modern dance. His artistic legacy continues to inspire dancers, choreographers and researchers. This documentary of creation proposes to show in what way and especially for what reasons Diaghilev (lover, Pygmalion and impresario of the dancer) was somehow appropriate Nijinski, favoring first the hatching of his extraordinary talents, then the abandoning to the psychic debacle, consequence of his schizophrenia.