At the heart of the Alien films the terrifying and unrelenting Xenomorph manifests an obsessive drive without restraint. In Prometheus we are offered an origin story that reveals how this alien isn’t something seperate from us, but rather represents a deep part of us. From a psychoanalytic perspective, the alien is not some foreign agent outside of ourselves, but rather a foreign agent that is more a part of us than we are to ourselves: it is a material expression of our immaterial drive.

We’ll watch the movie together, and at various points we’ll pause the show and I’ll draw out some of the philosophical and theological insights it explores.

This is a free event, but it is strictly limited to 50 people because of the theatre space.

More information to follow shortly.