... the sense that the spectator can symbolically fulfil their unconscious wishes according to Freud. Mulvey further investigated psychoanalytical film theory in order to confirm her theories on the dynamics of cinematic spectatorship. Mulvey was particularly interested in Freud's theory of how children become gendered beings, called the Oedipus complex, as she argues that this is similar to the process of ... pleasure that a spectator gains from their cinematic experience. Freud argued that children engage in voyeuristic activities in an attempt to discover the forbidden; ... and narrative...

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