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I have devoted a whole chapter to psychological approaches to culture, since it is the approach which interests me most, and because in the last twenty years the use of psychoanalytic ideas, and to some extent ideas from Jungian psychology, has increased enormously in literary criticism, film criticism and cultural studies.
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4 Psychological Approaches to Culture
1. Lionel Trilling, ‘Freud and Literature’, in David Lodge (ed.), 20th Century Literary Criticism: A Reader (London: Longman, 1972) p. 279.
Ernest Jones, Hamlet and Oedipus (New York: W. W. Norton, 1949).
Jacques Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection (London: TavistockiRoutledge, 1989) p. 128.
9. See, for example, D. T. Suzuki, The Zen Doctrine of No Mind (London: Rider, 1974).
See, for example, D. T. Suzuki, The Zen Doctrine of No Mind (London: Rider, 1974).
11. See Elizabeth Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (London and New York: Routledge, 1990) p. I 16–26; also Lynne Segal, Straight Sex, pp. 130-40.
12. Constance Penley, ‘Introduction: The Lady Doesn’t Vanish: Feminism and Film Theory’, in C. Penley (ed.), Feminism and Film Theory (New York: Routledge, 1988) pp. 6–7.
S. Freud, An Outline of Psycho-analysis (London: The Hogarth Press, 1973) p. 11.
14. Karen Horney, ‘The Dread of Woman’, in Feminine Psychology (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973) p. 144.
Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1993) pp. 24ff.
18. Amy Taubin, ‘Invading Bodies: Alien3 and the Trilogy’, Sight and Sound 2:3 (July 1992).
20. Ibid., p. 165; see also Barbara Creed, ‘Phallic panic: male hysteria and Dead Ringers’, Screen 31:2 (1990) pp. 125–46.
21. Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) Chapter 2, ‘The Alienated Ego’.
On the Trickster, see Joseph Henderson, ‘Ancients Myths and Modern Man’, in Man and his Symbols, pp. 103 ff. For a political analysis of the Bond stories, see T. Bennett and T. Woollacott, Bond and Beyond: the Political Career of a Popular Hero (London: Macmillan, 1988); for a structuralist analysis, see Umberto Eco, ‘The Narrative Structure in Fleming’, in B. Waites, T. Bennett and G. Martin (eds), Popular Culture, pp. 242–62.
24. Marie Louise von Franz, Interpretation of Fairy Tales (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1987).
25. See Greil Marcus, Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
See the discussion in Jackie Byars, All That Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama (London: Routledge, 1991) Chapter 4; Janet Thumim, Celluloid Sisters, Chapter 6; Constance Penley, Feminism and Film Theory; and E. Ann Kaplan, Psychoanalysis and Cinema.
Laura Mulvey, ‘Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” inspired by Duel in the Sun’, in C. Penley, Feminism and Film Theory, p. 79.
Donald Spoto, The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius (London: Collins, 1983) p. 419.
34. William Schoell, Don’t Go Into the Shower: The Shocker Film Phenomenon (London: Robinson Publishing, 1988) p. 55; Carol Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws, pp. 23 and 46.
36. See Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex (London: Fourth Estate, 1994) pp. 243–5.
38. Jean Domarchi, ‘Knife in the Wound’, in Jim Hillier (ed.), Cahiers du Cinema: Volume I, The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985) p. 246.
Francois Truffaut, Hitchcock (London: Panther, 1969) p. 376.
46. See Michael A. Messner, ‘Masculinities and Athletic Careers’, in J. Lorber and S. A. Farrell (eds), The Social Construction of Gender (Newbury Park:Sage, 1991) pp. 60–75.
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Horrocks, R. (1995). Psychological Approaches to Culture. In: Campling, J. (eds) Male Myths and Icons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389397_4
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