Freudian sexual desire

Sven 2022-04-22 07:01:41

The film Beauty in the Daytime is a good interpretation of Freud's theory. Freud believed that "sex" is the subconscious that dominates all human behavior. This subconscious is suppressed due to the requirements of social moral standards. It is sometimes released through dreams.

Explanation 1 of the

film: The heroine in the film is a housewife with a husband who loves deeply. She does not worry about food and clothing, but she longs for the life of a prostitute in her heart. She imagines the sexual interest brought by having sex with different men. In the process of being a prostitute, she encountered men of various sexual preferences, and she herself could not extricate herself from it.

If you go back to why she formed such a character, a very short shot in the film gives an explanation, which stems from the fact that she was raped by a worker when she was a child, which goes back to Freud's theory, Freud believed that, Many behaviors and mental illnesses are rooted in childhood experiences.

The film is interspersed with several scenes of the heroine being abused. These scenes should have occurred in the heroine's dream. There is also a dream where a client of the heroine kills her husband in order to get her. In the end, her husband From sitting up from the wheelchair, it means that it is actually a dream.

Explanation 2 of the film: A dream

is the release of repression in real life. Dreams generally have no coherence and lack of logic. Everyone dreams, but some can't remember them.

At the beginning of the film, the heroine had a small dream, dreaming that she was abused by her husband, and then it can be summed up as a big dream at the end of the film. Guilt, so interspersed with scenes of being abused by her husband when she was discovered.

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Belle de Jour quotes

  • Madame Anais: What's that? Credit card. Geisha Club. No-no. This is no good here. Cash only.

  • Duke: [Fantasy sequence] What's your name?

    Séverine Serizy: Belle de jour.

    Duke: Charming. I once had a cat named Dark Beauty. Do you come here often?

    Séverine Serizy: Everyday in my thoughts.