A Brief Psychoanalytic Discussion of Psycho Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, as the title itself suggests, is a widely known psychological movie. It means that the conflicts and clashes of the movie have causes which are related in one way or another to the psychic state of the characters’ minds. To begin the discussion of such motives, first I would provide you with a brief account of the plot of the movie. Marion wants to marry her boyfriend, Sam, but first they must escape from his alimony debt. The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon.
Another strong connection between the two, are the hallucinations that they suffer. Jack hallucinates about past events there and a bartender named ‘Lloyd’. Jack also meets the past murderer, Delbert Grady and he convinces jack to kill his family. However in Macbeth, Macbeth hallucinates about Banquo and then goes insane; much like Jack Torrance. Like Jack and Macbeth, the female characters Wendy Torrance and Lady Macbeth are two women who are happy and excited to start their new life.
George and Martha play a series of games in order to measure themselves against one another; not only against each couple, but also individually. Martha seduces Nick in front of his wife to test her sexuality, her greatest asset. Indeed, she puts on a sexy dress, and talks about her sexual past in order to gain authority and power. George intimidates Nick with all sorts of questions; he teases him and interrupts him without really paying attention to Nick’s replies. Alcohol in the scenes at first serves as a way to mask true emotion throughout the evening.
In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping. Women are encouraged to fulfill roles as “the slut” and are simultaneously devalued by doing so” sadly these are the types of stereotypes young girls and women grow up with (3). Little girls are told to act a certain way only for society to reject and humiliate them for it. In The Hunger Games Collins makes a point by sexually objectifying Glimmer, a career tribute, because she looks like the stereotype of sexy. In the novel Collins writes, “The girl tribute from District 1, looking provocative in a see-through gold gown…With that flowing blonde hair, emerald green eyes, her body tall and lush… she’s sexy all the way”(125).Collins makes it clear that society has a very specific image of what sexy should look like.
Abnormal Psychology Please answer the following questions completely using your notes or text when needed to justify your answers. 1. After watching the film, why do you think the movie title is Girl, Interrupted? The movie was titled girl interrupted because the character Suzanna had her life put on hold so she can go to this mental institution and while she was there she made friends with Lisa who was causing her to become worse but as soon as Lisa was out of the picture she started to show progress which was being interrupted by Lisa. 2.
“Girl, Interrupted” raises a lot of essential questions, but hardly gives any simple, clear-cut answers. We may say that this film questions the existence of mental illnesses itself. The reason, why the main character of the film, Susanna is staying in the mental hospital is an impulsive attempt to commit suicide by taking a lot of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. Instead of becoming a student of the prestigious Ivy League college, Susanna has a will-o'-the-wisp dream to become a writer. A couple of years before the events described in the movie, she took an overdose had her stomach pumped.
Perkin’s reading based on Psycho in suggestion of the Montage theory alongside the help of Carol J. Clover’s essay “Her Body/ Himself” suggesting similar to the Feminist theories of framework for horror films. As the feminist film theory suggests, “While male victims in horror films may shudder and scream as well, it has long been a dictum of the genre that women make the best victims. “Torture the women!” was the famous advice given by Alfred Hitchcock.” The infamous shower scene from Psycho begins with Marion (Janet Leigh) flushing away the calculations of the money she had stolen. As she takes of her robe and steps into the bath a medium shot is maintained with constant close ups of the shower itself creating noise of constant flow of water which forbids viewers to hear any other sounds and pay attention to it. Marion stands in the shower purifying herself, washing away the sins, with the shower curtain in her background while she seems as a very minor element of the scene; our attention is grabbed towards the shower curtain where a shadow appears slowly as the noise of the door is blocked out on purpose due to the noise caused by the shower.
Barbara Ehrenreich has defended the V talk shows of the Sally Jessy. She expresses her views about the T.V shows and says that this T.V shows are forums that are just to urge the middle-class qualities of responsibility, self-control and the reasons. She writes about the things that happened at Montel Williams show and supports her argument by describing the show. In that show a woman, Susan appeared and said that she was stalked by her boyfriend and later on it was proved that she was also stalking. Then every body at the show helped Susan realize the mistake.
She also refers to the murder of Banquo and Lady Macduff while in her somnambulistic state. Lady Macbeth’s motivation for going insane is ultimately to be free of guilt. Once the sense of guilt becomes to overwhelming, Lady Macbeth’s sensitivity becomes a weakness, and she is unable to cope. Lady Macbeth faces mental obstacles as she tries to overcome her guilt because her conscious mind is telling her to keep her secrets suppressed but her unconscious mind reveals her secrets to the Gentlewomen and the Doctor because it is doing herself no good keeping the secrets to herself. Once Lady Macbeth confronts these obstacles, she apparently kills herself, signaling her inability to deal with the legacy and the power of the crown.
POTENTIAL DANGERS OF PSYCHOLOGY 1 Potential Dangers of Psychology Jessica Bridgeman Brookline College POTENTIAL DANGERS OF PSYCHOLOGY 2 Psychology is a great tool to help determine why one performs the actions they do and help an individual with any psychological problems they may have, but just like anything else psychology does have dangers. Psychologists sometimes use their knowledge to their full extent. They can over medicate a patient, manipulate their thought process, declare an individual to be clinically insane whether they may or may not be, etc. There have been news reports of psychologists performing psychotherapy in order to rape their patient without the patient’s knowledge, and prescribing unnecessary medication to their patients that end up having an effect on their daily lives. There is a great movie that just appeared in theater called Side Effects starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Vinessa Shaw.