Abstract
This paper focuses on a single scene from the film Cabaret, a scene that dramatically portrays numerous schisms. This scene and the schisms it portrays dramatically reinforce Emmanuel Levinas’s basic tenant that we only become fully human by behaving responsibly to the other. The implications of these schisms for psychotherapy are explored by contrasting the healing stance of Apollo with the healing energy of his more related and eros-orientated half-brothers Dionysus and Hermes—the original psychopomp. The author suggests that integration of most of these schisms is best expressed by Erich Neumann’s concept of “wisdom of the heart.” The paper concludes with personal material suggesting the shadow and inauthentic stances may emerge in all collective groups and ideologies.
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