Sorry, Baby (2025): Film Analysis

Sorry, Baby is a rigorous meditation on trauma, subjectivity, and the unstable aftermath of sexual violence. Rather than reducing trauma to a single event, I argue that the film locates the traumatic in the subject’s fractured relation to what has occurred, showing how meaning fails to settle and how institutional, medical, and interpersonal responses often intensify that fracture rather than resolve it.

Feelings Are Always Reciprocal

Lacan reminds us: love is not necessarily mutual. In analysis, it is the patient who loves, and the analyst who listens. This non-reciprocal love—far from being cold—is what makes psychoanalysis possible. Only by refusing to mirror love can the analyst help transform it, rather than dissolve it.