Every adult knows how inhumane life can be. When a person happens to encounter such a disgusting life, it has three choices: face it, and then live soberly and extremely painfully; admit it, and then die happily; the last one, escape it and leave all the sins behind Another derived personality.
Returning to the film, who is Norman? The psychologist in the film tells us: "He was never a complete Norman, but he was always a complete mother." Hitchcock always seemed to be closely associated with Freud, the double sword of the two masters The combination is always sparkling and charming. Norman's instinct is very strong, he failed to pass the genital stage as safely as most people, digested the Oedipus complex (Oedipus complex) or the Electra complex (Electra complex), and used it from now on. Treat your parents with the right emotions and attitudes. And his superego seems to be very strong, because he has a harsh and demanding mother. What he lacks is the ego, which can perfectly coordinate the contradictory ego between the id and the superego, so he separates himself, the powerful id instructs him to kill his mother and his mother's lover, and the superego It made him suffer from guilt, and finally instructed him to steal his mother's body and dedicate at least half of his body and soul to his mother, pretending that his mother was still alive, and making "mother" always like him Jealous of her mother jealous of herself. Thus, he truly became a fusion of himself and his mother.
Specimen is an important image of the film. On the surface, Norman's mother is a decomposed corpse, a specimen of a human being, unable to speak or move, just in appearance. But after taking a closer look, Norman is actually more like a specimen. He has the shell of a man, but does not have the core of a man. Half of his heart is a little boy who is overly dependent on his mother in the genital stage, and half is a strange mother who has returned from the dead. He lives in pieces, but this seems to be his only way to survive.
In the face of severe conflict, "the stronger personality triumphed", and Norman completely lost himself and became his mother. Mental illness is sometimes so dramatic that it can support a movie or an afternoon's imagination. But many ordinary people are also infected with the habit of this disease. In the face of too cruel conflicts, millions of people are losing their original self, leaving only the specimens of the flesh, and using other people's methods and souls to humble themselves. Life.
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