The main character in the film Black Swan, twenty-eight year old female Nina Sayers, displays signs of numerous disorders through her abnormal behavior. Nina’s life is consumed by her occupation: professional ballerina/dancer. Nina resides with her mother and rarely socializes with others. She has difficulty concentrating, is restless, irritable, suffers from muscle tension, and sleep disturbances from nightmares. Nina also feels very uncomfortable in social and intimate situations. She appears to be unable to successfully interact with those around her. The interaction that Nina has with her fellow dancers appears to be strained and superficial. Nina exhibits behavior that indicates she views all other dancers as competition instead of …show more content…
Nina’s sub-personality seems to be the complete opposite of Nina herself. The sub-personality displays confidence, lustfulness, and deceitfulness. She has also attempted to hurt Nina through self-mutilating while in control.
Nina is also having many hallucinations, besides seeing her sub-personality, she has seen feathers growing out of her skin, her legs crack/bend, and drawings of herself moving and taunting her. Schizophrenia seems to be the conclusion from these symptoms. Nina also is extremely paranoid about others around her and has had hallucinations regarding their betrayal of her. She is delusional in her beliefs of another ballerina trying to sabotage her and take her role in the performance of Black Swan. A delusion is a strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary (Comer, 2011).
Nina has stolen many items from another dancer in her company, Beth, who she idolizes. This is a form of kleptomania; the impulsive need to steal even though often times they have more than enough money to pay for the things that they steal (Comer, 2011). This is a projection of Nina’s id impulses; she believes that if she takes these items from Beth then she might be like her.
Following the DSM-IT-TR (2011), I have concluded the following diagnosis for Nina Sayers:
Axis I: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Axis II: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder,
Everything she had hope for, gone. Everything the shaped her life, destroyed. Jason had told the Population Police that Nina had turned in third children-who weren't actually third children! She could of been executed right then because of him. “He had told the Population Police that she'd done something evil, and they were going to kill her for it.”(27) This shows that Jason had betrayed her. Thisis important because Nina's life could of ended right there. She survived though, but it leaves her with a feeling of mistrust, a feeling that hurts others. On page 30, this feeling of mistrust gets the better of her, and she agrees for a deal to betray others. “But sometimes even the Population Police can benefit from ignoring certain aspects of the law.” the police tells her. She is interested in this deal, for the she couldn't live with her suffering, and someone else not. One person who suffers, leads another to suffer, and so many people get hurt in the
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The interview of Lisa Simone gave the audience of her perspective of how her mother’s behavior changed over the years. Due to Nina’s busy life as an artist, she didn't get enough time to spend with her daughter. But when Nina found time, Lisa Simone stated, “She [Nina Simone] went from being the comfort in my life to the monster.” Lisa witnessed her own mother Nina physically abusing her to the point where Lisa started contemplating suicide. This anger that Nina had instilled within her came from her idea of violent activism and the abuse she used to receive from her husband/manager, Andy. This interview from Lisa Simone defends Garbus’s position by conveying the behavioral change Nina Simone because of her experiences as an activist and a client. The devices Liz Garbus implements in his film, What happened, Nina Simone, display an appeal to pathos and ethos while supporting his argument of the struggle one faces because of
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Nina mind is not fully developed to be an adult she is still in child like mind because of her mother. Her mothers controlling parenting has caused Nina to stay dependent on her like a child. Tomas gives Nina the role of Snow Queen because when he tried to kiss her, she bit his lip to make him stop. When Nina bit Tomas lip it showed a sign of the Black Swan in Nina. Nina wants to be perfect in every way she can so she practices everyday and takes some of Beth’s belonging because she thought it would help become a prefect dancer. This is similar to a young girl taking her mother’s make-up to put on because she wants to be just like her mother because her mother is her role model. Nina looks up to Beth as a prefect dancer a role model. Nina is the perfect White Swan, and has to figure out how to become, the Black Swam the alternate version of the White Swan. In order to become the Black Swan Nina starts to envision a darker vision of her. Nina has child-like innocents slowly loses herself into the illusion of the Black Swan because of her mother supreme coddling. When her mother is afraid of what Nina starts to become she tries to control Nina by locking into the house. However, this pushes Nina even more to tap into the dark side of herself or the Black Swan character. If
After Nina gets the role as the swan Queen, Nina begins to take a turn for the worse and gradually shows increasingly severe symptoms of schizophrenia and dissociation,
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Black Swan What symptoms of schizophrenia are portrayed? Nina Sayers, the main character in Black Swan, has paranoid schizophrenia, shown through her delusions and hallucinations. Her symptoms become worse as she is pressured into becoming the perfect role in her production at work and at home. Throughout the film, she becomes more stressed, which shows the vulnerability for the illness to control her. Particularly in one scene of the film, she is all alone in the bathroom and she looks at herself in the mirror.
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She thinks that Lily is out to get her and her role. Nina has her first real psychotic episode when she goes out for a night of partying. In a hallucination she believes that she sleeps with Lily and we find out it’s a hallucination when Lily says she went home with a man that night. The night before the opening of the show she has a hallucination that Lily has sex with the director, Leroy. The second major psychotic episode happens on opening night when she finds Lily in her dressing room as the Black Swan.
The film, Black Swan, by Darren Aronofsky is one of the most unsettling psychological thrillers of recent years. The film is about a young ballerina, Nina, whom strives for perfection as a dancer and dreams of becoming the Swan Queen in her company’s new staging of Black Swan. Throughout the film, Nina struggles with many of her own psychoanalytical problems. These most specifically start after Nina is cast at the Swan Queen. A Freudian analysis of this film can bring out all of Freud’s biggest theories while at the same time follow the main themes and symbols of Aronofsky and Natalie Portman’s masterpiece.
Nina showed a variety of signs and symptoms throughout the film. Some of those signs and symptoms included hallucinations,
What differs between the article and the movie is that Nina also shows signs of hallucination and delusions but these two symptoms are not brought up in the article. Conclusion In Black Swan, the portrayal of Nina, a Ballerina who experiences a number of different psychological disorders is very distinctive. The movie was very well directed due to the strong visuals that help the viewer understand what Nina is going through.
Also she likes to manipulate Nina’s activities like interfere Nina’s private life , set up curfew time,even nail cutting. Those actions cause Nina unable to assimilate into the society , eventually become depressed and suffer anxiety disorders.