Sunday, March 1, 2009

Psycho Hamlet?

What if Hamlet's Oedipal guilt (that is, from having lost his father and then his mother to his father's brother) manifested itself as a return to pre-oedipal territories, to the original dyadic pairing between son and mother? Here's Anthony Perkins in Psycho:

1 comment:

kitten66 said...

It's as if Norman Bates just stopped at the Lacanian "mirror-stage" when seeing himself in his motherer and got lost there...