A comic actor used to start his long and very confused monologues by always saying the
same thing. He said: “before speaking, I would like to say something”. I'm kind of in the
same situation here. The first thing I'd like to say is that, as you can hear, my English is not
great. This is due to a birth defect. I was not born in the US. The second thing I'd like to talk
about is the subject of my paper, namely love and the relation it has with psychoanalysis
and its depiction in the movies. I will be referring to the film Rust and Bone