“We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes”: Alfred Hitchcock, American Psychoanalysis, and the Construction of the Cold War Psychopath
2010; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 40; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/cras.40.2.133
ISSN1710-114X
Autores Tópico(s)Medical History and Research
ResumoAbstract: This article explores the image of the psychopath in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. The famed director's portrayal of a psychologically damaged young man connected with a much larger discussion over political and sexual deviance in the early Cold War, a discussion that cantered on the image of the psychopath as the dominant threat to national security and that played upon normative assumptions about adolescent development and mother-son relations.
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