Charlie Kaufman

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there’s loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”
Charlie Kaufman, an American screenwriter, producer, and director, is a three time Academy Award nominee and one time winner. In addition, he has won three BAFTA and three Independent Spirit Awards. Kaufman was identified by Time Magazine in 2004 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. His works include Synecdoche, New York, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Human Nature. While being known to be very protective of his private life, Kaufman’s work sometimes includes fictionalized accounts of his life.
John Beebe, a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco, has been writing and lecturing about popular culture for thirty years, concentrating particularly on the American film. His most recent book, co-authored with Jungian analyst Virginia Apperson, is The Presence of the Feminine in Film, now available in paperback from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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