A Brief Analysis of "Doctor Edward" from a Psychological Perspective

Edmond 2022-03-21 09:02:10

The film tells a love story, Dr. Peterson falls in love with a doctor Edward who has just been transferred to their hospital, but after a series of strange things, Dr. Peterson finds that this doctor Edward is not Dr. Peterson, he is a fake. goods. When she found out about this fact, her colleagues found out too, and they called the police. JB chooses to run away to keep his beloved Constance from getting involved in this matter, and Constance is convinced that he can cure JB, he is just sick. Then the two of them ran off to Constance's mentor, and Constance finally went through a series of brilliant psychoanalytic methods, such as dream interpretation, to help JB recall who he was, his childhood experiences, and Dr. Edward's true cause of death.

Freud's psychoanalytic school regarded people's dreams as very important. He believed that dreams were the first in a series of abnormal mental phenomena, so he wrote the book "The Analysis of Dreams" to explain some of his ideas about dreams. Theoretical research found. In this movie, JB's dream is the key to unlocking the truth of Dr. Edward's death, which is the pure source of mental stimulation in the source of dreams that Freud believed, that is, what you do during the day, there will be a certain probability of appearing in the night. in a dream. And JB's dream is because he received a serious stimulus, he will have the dream of the cause of Dr. Edward's death.

Freud also believed that all psychological disorders are related to early childhood experiences. JB has a serious sense of guilt because he accidentally killed his brother when he was a child, he always thought he killed his brother, so he lived in deep guilt until Constance healed him Feeling, and always thought that he killed Dr. Edward. All the things he said to Constance confirmed it: "I don't deserve your love." "I'm a murderer."

This film is the originator of psychoanalytic film, which shows psychoanalysis to the public in the form of film, and is a landmark film.

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Extended Reading
  • Taya 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    #CC# The first film in the history of film based on Freud's psychoanalysis. Involving dream interpretation, Oedipus complex, depression and release, etc., Hitchcock also invited Salvador Dali to design and draw a dream restoration scene, so that the famous "cutting giant eyeballs with scissors", through dream interpretation, that is to admit the spirit of the dream The plasticity of data to identify potential dangers in the plot. In the "manifestation" of the dream, for example, at the beginning, a female patient projects fears on unconscious scratching, while another male patient discusses the guilt of patricide. The male protagonist is particularly sensitive to stripes, because his childhood traumatic case of manslaughtering his younger brother led him to choose to "forget" the event that made him feel guilty. Stripes = the motive of the ski trail, but it is quite casual to expose the real murderer, so that "the gun in the last shot is shot at the audience and ends with a blood-red flash", but this technique serves the British. Gerry Bergman and Gregory Peck's romantic love, they believed in each other in psychoanalysis, after the obstacles of double identities were resolved, it was a happy ending for the two of them to kiss.

  • Icie 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    so blind. Psychoanalysis must have been very fashionable back then, but it was misused as a gimmick and misused for granted. Parker's acting is a vase, and he only does four things from start to finish: wide-eyed dazed, wide-eyed in fear, flirting with Bergman, and fainting when not flirting. Love is still inexplicable. At first sight of "fascinated" love, female characters finally have a little bit of initiative and action, but when they touch a man, they are still desperate and lose their rationality, and their IQ instantly degenerates to 250.

Spellbound quotes

  • Constance Petersen: I'm here as your doctor only. It has nothing to do with love.

    [John kisses her and they embrace each other tightly]

    Constance Petersen: Nothing at all. Nothing at all...

  • Constance Petersen: All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.

    John Ballantine: Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.