... 's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed desires, as he struggles with the Oedipus complex, defined as subconscious feelings in children of intense competition and even hatred toward ... for that element of her that has no substitute" (Collings 282). Immediately after giving life to the Creature, Victor escapes his abomination by falling int...

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... , 1975). The camera, thus, replaces or displaces our body as the point of perception, it challenges us to separate between inner and outer, between mind and world and the rational understanding itself, transforming our perception into a trance or a dream (Allen, 2001). In direct contrast to all the points ... , an objectified other (Mulvey, 1975). Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) is also a film with much usage of voyeurism and subconscious desires. This mysterious thriller stars Kyle MacLachlan, who plays the male protagonist, Jeffrey Beaumont. Jeffrey's journey in the ...

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... 's take on the "male gaze" in cinema in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" relies on psychoanalytic theory to highlight the role of the patriarchal subconscious of society in films, as well as the threat of castration in the presence of a female character in the midst of a male-dominant storyline. Her main argument centers on the ... of spectatorship highlight the fundamental role of the spectator in Hollywood cinema. Based on this idea, the presentation of the characters in film is arguably developed with the spectator in mind. Despite the many other factors that constitu...

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... ours, and pleased or otherwise with them according as they do or do not answer to what we should like them to be; so in imagination we perceive in another's mind some thought of our appearance, manners, aims, deeds, character, friends, and so on, and are variously affected by it. George Herbert Mead, another symbolic interactionist who taught at the University ... three elements. The id, which every child is born with, it is the inborn drive that causes us to seek self-gratification. This is the pleasure seeking part of our subconscious. The opposite of this id, is what Freud called the...

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