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The psychodynamic approach views behaviour in terms of past childhood experiences, and the influence of unconscious processes. There are five psychosexual stages in Freud’s theory, the first being the oral stage during which the infant focuses on satisfying hunger orally. Sigmund Freud believed that during this stage of development the person can become fixated in the oral stage of development. An infant's pleasure and comfort centres on having things in the mouth during this

Persona is a wonderful film that explains the story of a young nurse and an actress. The film presents a mixture of horrific and psychological drama. Animal slaughter is an important element of symbolism in the film. Animal slaughter shows an act of sacrifice for ritual purpose. Most importantly, the act of animal slaughter is used to support themes of death and insanity in a great way. When audience sees the killing and mutilation of an animal, they understand that there is an eminent danger from outside (Bergman).

The movie “Babadook” contain basic elements leaning toward psychological human emotions that contain elements of the supernatural world, a mother grief and depression and one’s inner self and how a mother copes when things turn into a horrible nightmare of one’s unconscious imagination. In Freud’s opinion the unconscious mind has a will and purpose of its own that cannot be known to the conscious mind (hence the term “unconscious”) and is a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression. (Freud’s).

Surrealism, an art and literature movement aiming to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind began in the 20th century. In surrealism, authors attempted to juxtapose irrational images such as a fork and a bird’s foot. Charles Simic, a famous surrealist author, grew up in a war-torn Europe which shaped his perspective of the world and deeply affected his writing. In his brief poem “Fork,” he initially leads the reader into thinking his two stanza poem will depict a concise image of one eating food. However, as one reads on, the poem instead guides the reader to a far darker purpose, there is violence hidden behind everyday normalcies. Using sinister language, Simic immediately sets a disturbed tone. It is only when one reads “Fork” a second time that the horror of his writing sinks in: our everyday lives are filled with small acts of violence that Simic depicts through the use of language, structure, and juxtaposing imagery. A break of white space separates the first stanza from the second, creating a long pause for the reader to question what he or she just read. Second, Simic uses sickening language to describe what one does with a fork in the second stanza. He draws us into a world in which a simple object like a fork can be transformed into nightmare.

Through psychoanalytic theory, the mind likes to play a lot of games on the victim such as dreams of reality, poems and riddles of the past, and isolation creating the best and worst out of them. Upon the first novel, dreams take control of the mind to unleash the most inner desire. An

Sigmund Freud discusses psychoanalysis and how the ID, ego, and super ego relate to each other which, the movie “Silence of the Lambs” has strong examples of. The movie Silence of the Lambs focuses on Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lector who are both serial killers. Buffalo Bill is a serial killer whose life and criminal factors relate to that of Freuds psychological theories in many different ways. They both discuss the ID, fixation, suppression, denial, and how these factors lead to a breaking point. In Buffalo Bills case this breaking point meant crime in order to reach his unattained goal of becoming a woman.

Focusing on a twenty year old obsessed with death and suicide who falls in love with an eccentric almost-eighty-year-old woman, Harold and Maude is a somewhat unconventional romantic comedy widely regarded as a cult classic. This movie’s use of suicide and other sensationalized ideas from Psychology is jarring to say the least, but its Psychological principles are not limited to those. There are many everyday aspects of Psychology immortalized through this film that would hardly make one bat an eye. In the movie, twenty year old Harold lives, mostly, with his mother. During the time he is not living with his mother, he is faking suicide for her attention, bringing home a hearse as his first car, or attending funerals, presumably for fun. Harold’s quirks seem to at least somewhat

Freud’s theories have launched what is now known as the psychoanalytic approach to literature. Freud was interested in writers, especially those who depended largely on symbols. Such writers tend to tinge their ideas and figures with mystery or ambiguity that only make sense once interpreted, just as the analyst tries to figure out the dreams and bizarre actions that the unconscious mind of a neurotic releases out of repression. A work of literature is thus treated as a fantasy or a dream that Freudian analysis comes to explain the nature of the mind that produced it. The purpose of a work of art is what psychoanalysis has found to be the purpose of the dream: the secret gratification of an infantile and forbidden wish that has been repressed into the unconscious (Wright 765).

The Novella “The Body” by Stephen King is about a group of boys who all come from abusive dysfunctional families and this book is their journey to discover a dead body. They are young and their immaturity makes them excited to see a dead body but along the way, they begin to realize various things and begin to grow. In this book the four boys Gordie, Chris, Vern, and Teddy come of age. In this essay, there will be brief descriptions about three of the four of the boys from this novella. Chris came from a bad family and was thought to come out the exact same way as his family and was doubted his whole life. Teddy came from an abusive family where his father burned off his ears and took away his hearing. Gordie’s older brother Dennis had died and his family began to treat him like he was invisible and that their only child had died. “Coming of age is when an adolescent protagonist comes to childhood by a process of experience and disillusionment. These characters lose their innocence, discovers that previous preconceptions are false or has the security of childhood torn away, but usually matures and strengthened by this process” (Matthew’s Quote). In Stephen King’s novella “The Body” King shows through Chris, Gordie, and Teddy that a person cannot come of age unless they are able to come to contact with their emotions and reality and be able to forgive to move forward in life.

The director pulls the viewer into the struggle to survive and what it feels like to be hunted like animals.

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it” These are the words from a man who is very known for killing millions of innocent people during the holocaust. His name is Dr. Josef Mengele also known as “The angel of death”. Doctor. Mengle would torture Jewish children and many others. They were put into pressure chambers, frozen to death, tested with drugs, and exposed to various other experiment tests. At Auschwitz Mengele did a lot of twin studies. The twins were usually killed after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.Dr. Mengele wanted to create a dominant race of blue eyed, blonde haired people. To do this he needed to discover the secrets of heredity. So he thought that the only way to do this experiment

Analysis of an aspect of visual form in the film ‘Repulsion’ In the 1964/65 film ‘Repulsion’ by Roman Polanski, the story is about the conflict between reality and fantasy or sanity and insanity inside the main character’s mind – Carol played by Catherine Deneuve. Therefore the narrative technique of symbolism is used to display visually to the film’s audience what happens to Carol’s mind. In this particular instance, the degeneration of Carol’s state of mind is symbolised.

Often the horror genre acts as what Mark Gatiss (2010) deems a ‘collective dream’ in his miniseries A History of Horror, where socio-cultural anxieties are depicted in the realm of fantasy in which consumers can freely enjoy. As Slavoj Žižek’s commented in is documentary The Perverts Guide to Cinema (2006), "we have a perfect name for fantasy realised. It's called, 'nightmare.'" Research into the genre of horror inevitably uncovers research into Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Interpretation of the horror medium is greatly assisted with psychoanalysis, as Freud's theories offer scholars multiple avenues of thought and analysis. This may be from the basis of dream interpretation and the application of such ideology in horror 'fantasy', to

“They say he is my father, but I know I'm not his son. Because this man is crazy, and because I am not. Because I dream, I am not,” (3:40). In regards to his this hereditary condition, Leo exhibits reality anxiety – one of Freud’s three hypothesized types of anxiety – which is described as the aversion to certain real life events. Subsequently, he fabricates a notion that his mother was impregnated by a tomato that was contaminated with an Italian man’s semen. In believing this, he is able to deny that he received the gene that has rendered all of his family members (except for his mother, who is not part of his father’s heritage) mentally ill. He becomes an Italian boy named Léolo Lozone: “Everybody thinks I'm French Canadian. Because I dream, that is not what I am. Because I dream, that is not what I am. Those who trust only their own truth call me Leo Lozeau,” (2:55). The structure of this film and the retelling of this story also portray Leo’s fantasy. The scenes do not provide a clear distinction between reality and fantasy, and instead depict the haphazard way that they are both intertwined in Leo’s life. He escapes from reality by documenting his everyday thoughts and experiences on random bits of paper, and the story is narrated by the

The film Melancholia by Lars von Trier gradually develops into the character's depression through their actions and choices that can relate directly to Lars von Trier's own depression and unfortunate childhood circumstances. The main protagonist of the movie, Justine, is depressed and this affects everyone around her. Lars von Trier, the writer and director, is depressed was depressed when creating this film and this depression is reflected in Melancholia. Freudian theories relate to Melancholia through Justine's life as well as her love life. She is constantly unsatisfied and immediately has an extramarital sexual encounter when she is vulnerable. Freudian theories are demonstrated through the depression from the characters in the movie