Transcript PSYCHOANALYSIS & GENDER

PSYCHOANALYSIS
&
GENDER
By: CARMEN ESSA
Edited By: Dr. Picart
Associate Professor of English
Courtesy Associate Professor of Law
Goal/Aim
The goal of this class is to understand
psychoanalysis, fetishism, sadism, the
theories of Freud and Jacques Lacan,
and apply them to the films, Marnie and
Psycho.
OVERVIEW
 “Psychoanalytic
Criticism”
 “Visual Pleasure
and Narrative
Cinema”
 Interactive Game
 Alfred Hitchcock
 Marnie
 Psycho
Psychoanalysis
• Analyze dreams, feelings, and/or
behavior. Search for hidden
repressions
• Using free association to
understand or investigate what
goes on in the mind.
Psychoanalytic Criticism
By: Gail Houston
I. Freudian Models
A. Dynamic model
• Conscious
• Unconscious
Economic Model
• Pleasure principle
• Reality principle-
Topographical Model
• Conscious
• Preconscious
• Unconscious
Topographical Model #2
• Superego
• Ego
• Id
Freud’s Seven Steps to becoming a
“normal” member of society.
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Oral phase
Anal phase
Phallic phase
Oedipus complex
Castration complex
Latency stage
Genital stage
Jacques Lacan
“mapping of human identity”
• The Real
• The Imaginary
• The Symbolic Order
• Phallus as Signifier
QUESTION # 1
In Freud’s seven stages to becoming a
“normal” member of society, in which of
the following stages does the child realize
it is separate from its mother?
a. oral stage
b. anal stage
c. phallic stage
d. latency stage
QUESTION # 2
Which of the following phases represents
the stage in which the male child fears
that the father has castrated the mother
and will do the same to him?
a. Oedipus complex
b. Castration complex
c. Phallic phase
d. Latency stage
QUESTION # 3
This stage is sort of a pre-adolescent
stage and must take place in order
for the genital organization stage to
take place.
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Phallic stage
Latency stage
Anal stage
Oedipus complex stage
QUESTION # 4
In this phase, the male child sees his
father as the masculine role model
and identifies the father as the norm
for the male gender.
a. phallic phase
b. oral stage
c. latency stage
d. castration complex
QUESTION # 5
Which of the following did Jacques Lacan
say was your ideal image of yourself?
Hint: it’s also called the mirror stage.
a. Real
b. Imaginary
c. Ego
d. Id
QUESTION # 6
Lacan defines this as the period
when the father breaks the mother
and child bond and imposes the
rules of society on the child.
a. Real
b. Imaginary
c. Symbolic Order
d. Oedipus Complex stage
QUESTION # 7
Lacan identifies this as the time
when both sexes seek to become
“whole” by becoming what the other
sex desires.
a. Real
b. Imaginary
c. Mirror stage
d. Phallus as signifier
Castration Anxiety
According to Freud, the image of
woman triggers castration anxiety.
This leads to male fetishism because
males have to get pleasure another
way usually by fetishcizing about other
female body parts.
Mulvey’s Three Classical
Hollywood Cinema Looks
• Camera
• Audience
• Characters
Laura Mulvey: “Visual Pleasure
& Narrative Cinema
Visual Pleasure (two forms):
A. Scopophilia
B. Identification
Reliefs for Castration anxiety
• Voyeurism
• Sadism
• Fetishism
Brief History of Alfred Hitchcock
• Born in London, 1899
• Died 1980
• Strict Roman Catholic
family
• Attended Jesuit
school as a teenager
• Became sketch artist
• Screenwriter, director,
& producer.
Source: http://users.netreach.net/treyl/hitchcock.htm
“The Jesuits terrified me
to death, and now I am
getting my own back by
terrifying other people.”
(Phillips 6)
Marnie
1st Images of Marnie
• Please watch the first five minutes of
Marnie and identify as many terms as
possible.
• Note: Pay particular attention to the first
few images of Marnie.
1st Images of Marnie
Shot/Reverse Shot
Extreme Close-Up
Medium Shot
Long Shot
Extreme Long Shot
Fade
Interview Scene
• Students will watch the last few minutes
of Marnie’s scene with her mother and
then the scene where she is interviewed.
Students will identify film terms.
Interview Scene
• Low Key-Lighting
• High Key Lighting
• High angle shots
1st Meeting with Mark
• Please watch this five minute clip and
identify all film terms.
1st Meeting with Mark
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Extreme long shot
Point of view shot
Shot/reverse shot
Medium shot
Close up
Bedroom Scene #2
• Please watch this five minute clip and
identify all film terms.
Bedroom Scene #2
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High/Low Key lighting
High/Low Angle shots
Dolly Shot
Fade
Extreme Close up
Pan
Medium Close-Up
Source: http://www.tvguide.com
Psycho’s 1st scene
• Students will watch the first five minutes
of the movie and identify all film
terminology.
Psycho’s 1st scene-Things to look for:
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Sound
Pans
Dissolve
Shot/Reverse Shot
Voyeur & Shower Scene
• Please observe this five minute clip and
identify all film terms.
Voyeur & Shower Scene
Things to look for:
Point of view shot
High Key Lighting
Low Key Lighting
High Angle Shot
Low Angle Shot
Zoom
Pan
Extreme Close up
Psycho
Last scene of Psycho
• Please observe this five minute clip and
identify all film terms.
Last scene of Psycho.
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Shot/Reverse Shot
Zoom/Close up
Voice Over
Dissolve
“I don’t care about the acting. I
don’t care about the subject
matter. My main satisfaction is
that the film had an effect on
the audience.”
Source: Phillips, Gene. Alfred Hitchcock
Sources
Phillips, Gene. Alfred Hitchcock.
NY: 1984. Pgs. 6-9
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.”
The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality. NY: 1992
Houston, Gail. “Psychoanalytic Criticism.”
The Critical Experience. 1994