Bates Motel: Old Film By Name Of Psycho

Bates Motel is a fictional TV show that is based off of an old film by the name of Psycho. In the series Bates Motel there is a character by the name of Norman Bates. Norman Bates is an 18 year old, shy boy who has a lot of psychological issues, and a very close bond with his mother. Norman first resides somewhere in Arizona with his mother and father. He ends up murdering his father in defense of his mother. Norman and his mother then move to the White Pine Bay after the death his father, to try and start a new life. There Norma, Norman’s mother, buys an old run down motel, and reopens it for business. Not soon after she purchased the motel a guy by the name of Keith Summers attacks and rapes Norma because he feels that the property she has

One night Norman feels that Dylan has disrespected his mother, and out of rage tries to kill him, but fails in the act. Norman goes on to befriend a girl by the name of Emma, in which he grows to be attracted to, and a guy name Bradley. Out of kindness Norma hires Norman, and Emma to help her around the motel. Shortly after Norman starts school, he becomes acquainted with a teacher by the name of Ms. Watson, whom he has relations with. One day Norman begins having these hallucinations that he cannot control. Upon the hallucination he blacks out, and ends up in the hospital. Subsequently, we later find out that Norman ends up murdering Ms. Watson as well. Norman doesn’t recall killing Ms. Watson due to the fact that he blacked out. As the series goes on Norman finds himself murdering anyone who he feels is putting his mother’s life in danger, or anyone he becomes in sexual relations with. Norman begins to become aware that something is wrong with him, but he is not sure what it is. Norman’s mother knows the things that happen to him, but decides to keep it a secret. She also finds herself covering up for the murders Norman has committed thus

Dylan finds this close bond to be very strange, and he also thinks it is too close of a bond. The bond is not the type of bond a mother and son should have, but rather a mother and father. In Psychology Sigmund Freud would look at Norman as having the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex is a personality that came from a Greek legend about King Thebes. King Thebes killed his father and marries his mother. The Oedipus complex is described as a boy who gains sexual feeling for his mother as that his father would have. The boy ends up envying his father, he begins to identify with his father in order to gain the same love and affection that is given off by his mother. Likewise Norman seems to fit this complex to the “T”. We find Norman murdering his father in defense of his mother. He then becomes very close physically and emotionally to his mother gaining the love and affection that his father received. In time we come to discover Norman sleeping in bed with his mother, until Dylan comes to address that it is not something an 18 year old boy should be doing. We later come to see that Norman envy’s guys his mother dates, or has sexual relations with. Normans feels that she is betraying his love, and in time he becomes furious with any guy she becomes acquainted