“When I kiss you, it’s like I’m kissing… my brother.” Or you can just watch this awesome film without thinking about it too hard. You might also consider Brad Pitt to be the Id and Ed Norton to be the Superego, the Ego of Tyler Durden being torn between the two. If only all severe psychological disorders looked like Brad Pitt we wouldn’t have drowned out our psychoses with frequent film blogging. Edward Norton is also clearly repressing his homosexuality – this manifests itself in the most badass and beefy way imaginable. Without the ability to resolve their Oedipal complexes, this generation of disenfranchised men reject all social norms and expectations. Split personality disorders aside (spoiler alert rescinded because if you haven’t seen Fight Club at this point in your life, then what the hell have you been doing?) the emotional and developmental problems inherent in every male in the film are down to their relationships with their fathers, or rather lack thereof. That’s more than we can say about those dirty teenagers who choose to do it in vicinity of an escaped psychotic murderer. It is his inability to come to terms with his sexuality that makes him transform into Captain Stabby, hence the nature of surviving heroine Jamie Lee Curtis – she’s the stereotypical virginal teenage victim, afraid of boys and of sex, and thus, in horror-movie logic, deserves to live. This extreme sexual dysfunction dominates Myers’ motivations throughout the film. Michael Myers ( The Love Guru himself) is all sorts of messed up from his childhood, when he witnessed his sister copulating and stabbed her to death in his confused pre-sexual rage. The John Carpenter classic Halloween is much more intelligent than what the slasher genre would later become. In Time actually had a great premise, and it’s brilliant right up to the 15 minute mark, at which point it commits suicide in a swathe of suggested incest. That’s quite a freaky harem you’ve got going for yourself. Talk about keeping it in the family, Cillian. When JT first meets time-gazillionaire Cillian Murphy, he trots out his entire family, stating how it’s hard it is to distinguish between his wife, daughters and granddaughters anymore. That’s not the only Freudian part of the film. One can only imagine the size of his Oedipal complex with her walking around. Justin Timberlake’s sexual development must be all sorts of messed up. In a world in which people can live forever, suspended at the age of 25 as long as they have the time-bucks to buy life, Olivia Wilde is The Super Milf. Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Cockburn – no, seriously) stars in the mostly-awful In Time as Justin Timberlake‘s superhot mama. Although the film received mixed reviews, which had a lot to do with Keira Knightley‘s overacted hysteria undercutting the amazing performances of Viggo Mortensen as Freud and Michael Fassbender as Jung, A Dangerous Method still provides excellent insight into the complexities of Psychoanalytical therapy, as well as highlighting how equally batshit crazy the therapists could be. David Cronenberg‘s “historical” film A Dangerous Method explores the relationship between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and their patients. The obvious choice to start your misadventures with Freudian psychology in film. Let’s take a walk through 10 easy films highlighting the pervasive ideas of Psychoanalysis throughout cinema history… In a film, everything can mean anything, but that’s not to say we can’t derive enjoyment from claiming Tom Cruise has an “anal fixation”. Here at BFF, we’ve cast aside such restraint. In reply, Freud gave this legendary quote: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. The father of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, was once asked if his dedication to cigars were, perhaps, indicative of some sort of phallic obsession.
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