Neurosis Freud Film Festival

The Birds 51.52 Another great example of neurosis on film. a 1963 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock  We see here Hitchcock's iconic use of the camera. That moved in a way that mimics the person's gaze.  So he was very good at perfectly marrying the cinephile gaze, the desiring gaze of the cinephile who watches intently engrossed with the movement of the camera and there's a perfect show of it in the film that you'll see as Tippi Hendren's boat pulls into Bodega Bay, CA.  You know you know so Tippy Hedren play a socialite called Melanie Daniels. Who meets a bachelor called Mitch Brenner played by Rod Taylor. Who lives with his mom but he's a hunk. They meet each other in a San Francisco pet shop. She then goes visits him in Bodega Bay.  That's a huge red flag to me personally, but i guess maybe it's just because I'm a Freudian and I found out that a grown adult was still living with their mom a lot of red flags would come up. There are exceptio...

 Breakfast at Tiffany's Mary: I think that Holly Golightly is a classic neurotic character. In the sense that she exhibits a pattern of avoidant behavior to first of all physically just to shut down her senses. She wears an eye mask. She wears ear plugs. She always is hiding behind dark sunglasses. Even just the things that she does like sleeping in all the time, you know. Lacon  might want to qualify that as a kind of almost like a mortification. She's just sort of going through the motions of life, but it's like she's preprogrammed to act in a certain way she's internalizing a lot of what people expect her to be, but it's like she's opting out really if you really look at the film closely, it's like she's leaking out conscious life.  This leaking out of the conscious element, is what I associate with being neurotic.  You know, there are texture of dissociation. She's not fully present. This organization and her behavior  - it's like her lif...

Twelve films of which we will study neurosis (They are in Chronological order)

The Ratman Landmark Case Study and OCD 1) In his 'Rat Man' case study, Freud referred to the neurotic subject as being unable to accept change in their surroundings, with pronounced difficulties in managing life patterns, and a resistance in the pursuit of satisfying experiences. *These are really kind if key ideas from the paper. there the is a kin of maladaptiveness in the neurotic person in terms of facing the discomfort in their environment, you know, the discomfort in their surroundings.  *There is a need almost for wanting to exert the control over the things in their life that seem so chaotic that are outside of their control.  *And so there's a need to kind of enhance how much control they might be able to exert.  *So it's almost like if you can imagine what how we now define the obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis. *I feel like that illuminates a lot of what we understand in neurosis itself.  *Because the person has as says her, pronounced difficulties i...

Sigmund Freud redefined and popularized Neurosis diagnosis in the 20th Century Could not be explained physiologically - and this is the key - it is kind of a strange anomaly of the medical field where people are complaining about physical symptoms, but there's no underlying cause, apparently. There's no underlying physiological cause like an actual lesion or cuts or a tumor or anything like that... Neurosis people will immediately think of Freud's landmark paper on the case study of the Ratman. People think of obsessional neurosis. Freud believed that when  a person is unable to consciously process trauma from the past.  They repressed the agonizing feelings related to the event. And this is a really important function that we need to know is that -  the mechanism of is repression - Is the suppression of what is deemed to be unacceptable or traumatic or uncomfortable or whatever it may be producing an undesirable unpleasant feeling. That then gets repressed and over...

Mary Wild is presenter:  I'm interested in seeing the kind of representation of what is psychoanalytically referred to as neurosis on film. And then how this then gets translated or expressed, manifested on cinema on film. And so what you're going to be getting in terms of content, there will be a lot of theory and film material presented.  My aim is not necessarily to comprehensively resolve the final essential meaning of every film. That is not the aim at all we don't have that kind of time for me to be able to do that and nor is that really necessarily a goal of mine.  I'm more interested in defining neurosis as a conceptual idea. Very much rooted in the understanding of the diagnostic category from the Freudian position, because I consider myself a Freudian. And then seeing where this gets manifested or beautifully illustrated within cinema.  So I'm going to be presenting so more than anything top line textures, top line cinematic textures of neurosis. That I th...