The Pervert's Guide To Cinema Page #2
- Year:
- 2006
- 150 min
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No, Mother. I'm gonna bring something up.
I am sorry, boy,
but you do manage to look ludicrous
when you give me orders.
- Please, Mother.
No, I will not hide in the fruit cellar.
You think I'm fruity, huh?
And down in the cellar, it's the id,
the reservoir of these illicit drives.
So we can then interpret the event
in the middle of the film,
when Norman carries the mother
or, as we learn at the end,
mother's mummy, corpse, skeleton,
from the first floor to the cellar.
You won't do it again. Not ever again.
Now get out.
- I told you to get out, boy.
- I'll carry you, Mother.
It's as if he is transposing her in his own mind
as the psychic agency from superego to id.
Put me down. Put me down.
I can walk on my own...
Of course, the lesson of it is the old lesson
elaborated already by Freud,
that superego and id are deeply connected.
as a figure of authority,
"How can you be doing this to me?
Aren't you ashamed?
"This is a fruit cellar." And then,
mother immediately turns into obscenity,
"Do you think I'm fruity?"
Superego is not an ethical agency.
Superego is an obscene agency,
bombarding us with impossible orders,
laughing at us,
when, of course, we cannot ever fulfil its demand.
The more we obey it, the more it makes us guilty.
There is always some aspect
of an obscene madman
in the agency of the superego.
We often find references to psychoanalysis
embodied in the very relations between persons.
For example, the three Marx Brothers,
Groucho, Chico, Harpo.
It's clear that Groucho, the most popular one,
with his nervous hyper-activity, is superego.
Well, that covers a lot of ground.
Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself.
You better beat it.
I hear they're gonna tear you down
and put up an office building
where you're standing.
You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get
a taxi, you can leave in a huff.
If that's too soon,
you can leave in a minute and a huff.
You know you haven't stopped talking
since I came here?
Chico, the rational guy, egotistic,
calculating all the time, is ego.
Chicolini, you're charged with high treason,
and if found guilty, you'll be shot.
- I object.
- Oh, you object?
- On what grounds?
- I couldn't think of anything else to say.
Objection sustained.
And, the weirdest of them all, Harpo,
the mute guy, he doesn't talk.
Freud said that drives are silent.
He doesn't talk. He, of course, is id.
Who are you guys?
What are you doing in my room?
That's my partner.
But he no speak. He's dumb and deaf.
The id in all its radical ambiguity.
Namely, what is so weird
about the Harpo character
is that he's childishly innocent,
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