The Existence Of Norman-Meaning Norman Bates

From a Psychodynamic perspective, Norman’s behavior springs from unconscious desires and childhood conflicts. Norman’s unconscious desires are to please his mother. Based on the Famous novel, Psycho, Norman’s mother, was very controlling. She mentally and physically abused him; and also drilled into his brain that all women, except herself, are dirty, untrustworthy, and evil. She taught him to never let himself have feelings for women. Once Norman was physically attracted to a woman, he would black out and murder her. When he snapped out of it, he wouldn’t remember a thing. His unconscious state, unlocked many unconscious motives. Norman’s behavior reflects his childhood conflicts with his mother. From a Psychodynamic perspective, Norman was turned

     The story traces the relationship between two brothers growing up in an emotionally constricted household headed by a Presbyterian minister. The scholarly Norman follows in the footsteps of his stern, stoic father, going to college, marrying and settling down. His older brother Paul, daring, handsome and athletic, chooses the more glamourous career of newspaper

Normans mother is dead, but is alive in the mind of Norman. She is therefore dominating Normans mind. Alfred Hitchcock makes us infer that the mother was alive throughout the film. This manipulates the audience throughout the film. The audience thinks that the mother is alive, and therefore, she can potentially be the killer in the film.

This novel reflects Shelley’s own childhood, which consisted of her feeling obligated to rebel against her own father’s wishes and his choice for her marriage. Frankenstein is a way for Shelley to tell her own experiences with parental conflict and how she feels she was affected by her demanding father and the environment she grew up in, by comparing herself to Victor’s monster. Shelley analyzed her own characteristics, and the characteristics of her father, and placed them within Victor and the

In the movie each of the main characters, Norman who is eighty years old, Ethel who is seventy years old and Chelsea who is forty years old go through some of the stages of psychosocial development. The first character in the movie I will be talking about is Norman. I recognized him first from the movie because I knew something seemed wrong with him. For example, in the beginning of the movie him and his wife Ethel goes to their vacation spot and he sees a picture of them and doesn’t recognize who the people are. His wife had to remind him that it was them in the picture. He is very forgetful and it seems that his mental is not as strong as it

This is suggested again, when Victor confides, "till death she was to be mine only” (Shelley 36). This exemplifies how Alphonse showed Victor, at an early age, how women were to be treated in society. Victor was displaced twice during his adolescence when his father allowed two nonmembers of the family into the house—first Elizabeth, then Justine. Although Victor was not outwardly agitated, these two displacements instilled within him a feeling of loneliness. In short, Alphonse’s dominating role as father led Victor to feel isolated. Alphonse did not think deeply about the impact that adding more members to the family would have on his son. This dominating role can be seen again when Victor is sent off to Ingolstadt, right after his mother, Caroline, died. Victor idolized his mother and was very attached to her. Instead of letting Victor grieve with the family, Alphonse sends him away, leaving Victor to feel more secluded than ever. Victor is isolated from his family and best friend Clerval, which fuels his obsession with creating the monster.

The main character observed was Norman even though it was his birthday and the rivals of his daughter visit. He encounters many emotion’s while on the journey entering late adulthood. Biologically Norman faces fear of aging, but also feeling the past is fading away. Norman attitude changes to due to grief felt as he experiences physical and mental changes, yet it puts relationships in a warp of a tornado. As the movie progress you will see Norman reveal emotions, insecurity, and mental instability and becomes a serious challenge, for example when Norman was lost in the woods he came back running because he was not able to find his way back. With the disease he is encountered with a slow mental decline. Aging adults become very grumpy, arrogant, and impatient, however, Norman will not let go what was once familiar to him, and even if he struggles to claim a command with the younger ones.

Hitchcock's Psycho Psycho first hit our screens in 1960 directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It faced major controversy, as it was different. Horror films before this were more unrealistic and gruesome. Psycho was a groundbreaking film of the horror genre. It was more realistic the events could happen in reality.

Victor Frankenstein's upbringing in a perfect society ultimately led to the destruction of his life which coincided with the lives of those emotionally close to

Every aspect of The Big Sleep was taken even further with perhaps Alfred Hitchcock’s best film, Psycho. One of the most interesting elements of this film is how the main character and plot completely changes halfway through the film. For the first part of the film, the audience follows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh). Marion is in love with Sam Loomis (John Gavin) and decides to skip town after she steals $40,000 dollars from the company she works for. She eventually arrives at the Bates Motel where she meets Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who runs the motel for his mother. In a twist of events, Marion is killed in a dramatic shower scene, after which the story completely shifts to follow the investigation of Marion’s disappearance, as well as the mystery of Norman and his mother. This is a very experimental way of structuring a film, but worked

In the film, he talks about taking care of his mother when he was having a conversation with Marion Crane, Norman states to Marion “I don’t hate her; I hate the illness,” meaning he loves her, but he is aware of the mental toll that she has put him through. He was hinting that his mother was not normal or that he wasn’t himself. Marion suggested that maybe he should committed her to a mental institution. Norman immediately shut that idea down by stating, “If you love someone, you don’t do that to them,” he fights his mother mentally, but he treats her like his lover. In his mind it was the mental version of her not allowing him to come out of the house and interact with other women that sparked his Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) kills Marion Crane (Janet Leigh). Marion who wanted to lead a happy family life with her boy friend Sam Loomis (John Gavin) after marriage and hence steals money and flees Phoenix and becomes a prey for the psychopath Norman Bates. Norman Bates overpowered by his dead mother’s personality kills the woman who comes in between the relationship with his mother. Norman has no other motive. Only his frustrated sexuality when he meets a woman can be the motive. As the case of a split personality syndrome Norman takes the role of his dead mother, and targets those women who come to his motel. Possessed by his mother, he dresses like her and here he slashes Marion on the shower. When Lila Crane (Vera Miles) along with Sam comes in search of

Sigmund Freud 's Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Development states that there is a structural model of the psyche, which splits the human identity into three instances of Ego, Superego, and ID. In Psychoanalytic Stage of Development, there are five stages: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital. Even though Sigmund Freud never was writing about the movie _Psycho_, theories of Freud, have a great connection with the personality of Norman Bates. According to Oedipus complex, by Sigmund Freud, it introduced the term for a child 's libidinal attachment to the opposite sex parent, while experiencing jealousy and dislike of the same

It also appears from examining the case study that he has a tendency to see himself as a victim, as somebody who is ‘put upon’ especially his relationship with his mother “she would never understand” “she would pick on him even more than usual.” This role may be a deeply ingrained one and give him a sense of identity, which whether negative or positive will be difficult to cast off. He would no longer have that ‘role’ to fall back upon, or use as an excuse for various behaviour. He will likely feel feelings of withdrawal from this victim role because the subconscious is so powerful and does not distinguish between right and wrong. To the subconscious, taking away this identity will actually feel like a survival threat