Narrator: Freud saw human life drawn between two powerful and opposing forces: the life force on the one hand and on the other, the death instinct, the destroying drive. Freud: Let us look away ...

Misericordia is a tight, layered thriller that capably embodies director Alain Guiraudie's explorations of sex and death.

Freud scholarship has moved on a great deal ... we human beings are a species of animal; we have drives and instincts, like every other species does and that the mind does work on behalf of ...