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Emory Looks at Hollywood: Psychoanalysis of the great Jay Gatsby

May 19, 2013 By Stephen Beehler

In the latest episode of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series, Jared Defife, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory's School of Medicine, offers a psychoanalysis of one of literature's most mysterious and tragic characters, Jay Gatsby.

The new Warner Bros. movie "The Great Gatsby" features Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic.

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