INTRODUCTION: This case involves the suspect being arrested for public intoxication and unable to care for himself in violation of PC 647(f)-Public Intoxication. The suspect was later placed on a WIC 5150-Mental Health Hold. INVESTIGATION:
There is also the representation of mise-en-scene in the movie, Norma has a way of pretending and interpreting certain items and actions into imaginary actions and
An example of this is when Kašpárková writes, ‘McMurphy recognises the roots of the male patients’ mental issues in the repressed sexuality caused by women [Nurse Ratched], consecutively leading to the insecurity about their masculinity.’ The text addresses how Nurse Ratched’s choices directly impact the men. They judge Nurse Ratched as a way to maintain some form of power while they face treatment. This is most evident in McMurphy’s case. Several shots throughout the
The prejudice that the author brings forward strongly is the notion of feminism. The author’s main purpose of writing this novel is to examine the role of women played around
One particular example is a 1942 film, Cat People, where a race of women turns into murderous panthers when sexually aroused or are driven with jealously. She describes numerous scenes in the movie which depict the strength feminine monsters have by expressing particular anxieties that different people have. I can perfectly discern the purpose of using this specific movie and it is astounding. A particular scene she describes is when a cat person named Irena Dubrovna meets with Dr. Louis Judd (a psychiatrist who attempts to cure her of her unfortunate curse) for her appointment. The significance of this scene is that Dr. Judd, who is again a physiatrist, tries to take complete control of Irena by using hypnosis and finding out everything she knows which eventually fails due his urge to kiss her.
James Mangold’s Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film adaptation of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, follows Susanna’s experience at Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital from the late 1960s. It explores mental illness among young women within an institutional setting, a typical site of authority and abjection. Girl, Interrupted portrays mental illness and abjection in female adolescents using the traditional structure of institution films. Abjection, as defined by French philosopher Julia Kristeva, “arises from the process of a child becoming autonomous of his or her mother” (Pheasant-Kelly 5). In other words, it is the human reaction to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by a loss of distinction or crossing of borders.
In her feminist film theory essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalysis to criticize and scrutinize the fetishism, scopophilia, and eroticism in Hollywood mainstream cinema. What Daughters of the Dust executes impeccably roots from radically abandoning the cultural conventions that depict women as subservient and submissive to patriarchal
Introduction Part 1: “Consciously or not, Alfred Hitchcock never followed tendencies of mainstream cinema. By depicting his heroines as strong and expressive, giving them freedom of will and using a subjective narrative mode, he broke with the classical image of woman as a spectacle.” (Malgorzata Bodecka) Films have always been influenced by the social-cultural background from the time the film was produced. Dating back to the beginning of film around the 1890s through the films produced today, if taken into account the time period, one can argue that a big change in the social-cultural background of the world, especially in western society, has been the change of the role of women in society.
The essay takes a psychoanalytic stance to demonstrate “the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form.” I found the paper extremely useful, having read it before and having revisited the paper I found that, while possible being slightly outdated due to it’s lack of other view points such as that of a queer spectator, the essay has a core four perceptions that runs throughout the film fetishized scopophilia, castration complex and powerful women, voyeurism and the notion that she famously coined the “male gaze”. Analysing both Kim Novak’s portrayal of both characters and her as a performer using the above ideas discussed in Mulvey’s essay really helped me develop some of the arguments that my essay question brought
As Freud states in his 1925 essay “Some psychological consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes” that a pervasive fear of the mother exists, as an archaic that threatens to overpower her child and smother the child into her own primal system . Indeed the figure of the monstrous mother is a
At the beginning of the twentieth century, women’s role in horror movies was small or passive; they will represent the victims of a ruthless villain – portrayed by a man. Later on, they became essential to the plot line, but still played a small role in those movies. They were at the time tortured, ostracized, and victimized – especially sexually. In the late decades of the century, the “final girl” archetype emerged – she is the only survivor in the movie. This character is presented as the innocent young girl or woman – the “virgin” – that would defeat the villain
According to Freud, myths are efforts of people to organize their dreams, which in turn contain displaced elements and representations of said people’s reality. Freud identifies these elements and representations as dream symbols. For the myth at hand, where Actaeon’s happening on a woman bathing and subsequent punishment in the form of cruel death, under the light of Freud’s theory, suggests that the culture from which this myth transpired was matriarchal and possibly predominantly female or one that placed great emphasis on female modesty and any kind of violation warranted grave recompense.
Exposing Foundations: Psychoanalysis and Gender in Mulvey and Butler Woman… stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the image of woman still tied in her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning. 6 In “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), Laura Mulvey points out that psychoanalytic theory can “advance our understanding of the status quo, of the patriarchal order in which we are caught” (2). To understand why woman is only “the bearer of meaning, not the maker of meaning” in this order, I will turn to a very small fraction of Lacan’s psychoanalytic philosophy. Here we find that
However, film critic, Robin Wood, argues that ‘since Psycho, the Hollywood cinema has implicitly recognised horror as both American and familial’ he then goes on to connect this with Psycho by claiming that it is an “innovative and influential film because it supposedly presents its horror not as the produce of forces outside American society, bit a product of the patriarchal family which is the fundamental institution of American society” he goes on to discuss how our civilisation either represses or oppresses (Skal, 1994). Woods claim then suggests that in Psycho, it is the repressions and tensions within the normal American family which produces the monster, not some alien force which was seen and suggested throughout the 1950 horror films. At the beginning of the 60’s, feminisation was regarded as castration not humanization. In “Psycho” (1960) it is claimed that the film presents conservative “moral lessons about gender roles of that the strong male is healthy and normal and the sensitive male is a disturbed figure who suffers from gener confusion” (Skal, 1994). In this section of this chapter I will look closely at how “Psycho” (1960) has layers of non-hetro-conforming and gender-non conforming themes through the use of Norman Bates whose gender identitiy is portrayed as being somewhere between male and female
Ibsen has tried to move away from the stereotypical women by sketching feminist dramas but yet when he deprives the woman of her doll-like exquisiteness and angelic beauty, he still remains confined to the stereotypical women rather he makes them monstrous and treacherous. In my research, I will look out to these questions that How can a loving wife neglect and torture her husband? How can she insult her husband and his relatives? How a female can negate her child? How can she develop relations with other men?
