La Bola Negra: Lorca, Jung, and the Buried Past

In this episode, Jeff Miller returns to discuss La Bola Negra, the extraordinary film by Spanish directors Los Javis, inspired by the life and work of Federico García Lorca.

Through a Jungian lens, we explore the film’s central themes of repression, shame, intergenerational trauma, and the struggle towards individuation. We examine Spain’s painful history of collective forgetting, the suppression of the feminine, and the ways in which unresolved experiences continue to shape subsequent generations.

We also consider Lorca’s rich symbolism, particularly the recurring imagery of snow and colour, and the transformative power of art to give expression to what individuals and entire cultures have buried in the unconscious.

This episode contains spoilers.

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