A Brief Psychoanalytic Discussion Of Psycho

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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. Then Marion, who works in a real state office, in a moment, decides to steal $ 40,000 and flees the state. On her way, she stops by Bates Motel. After talking to Norman Bates, a disturbed young man and also the owner of the motel, who apparently lives with his old and invalid mother, Marion is murdered by Norman’s mother in her room while taking a shower. Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake. However, Marion’s disappearance causes her sister and boyfriend to start an investigation, which finally ends at the motel when they discover that Norman is an insane murderer who killed Marion and the private detective, hired by Marion’s sister. Moreover, it becomes clear that Norman has not been living with his mother, due to the fact that she has been killed in her bed with her lover, by Norman ten years ago. Applying a Freudian approach to the movie Psycho, the history of characters becomes of great importance. Norman Bates, the character, who enjoys the attention of this discussion, in his conversation with Marion in the parlor of the Bates Motel,

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