Essays about: "Rebecca Spolander"

Found 1 essay containing the words Rebecca Spolander.

  1. 1. The Fear of Mrs. Bates : The Use of Psychoanalytical Aspects, Anticipation and Retrospection in Robert Bloch’s Psycho

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Rebecca Spolander; [2018]
    Keywords : Robert Bloch; Psycho; Sigmund Freud; psychoanalysis; Super-Ego; Ego; Id; repression; Wolfgang Iser; reception theory; anticipation; retrospection;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on psychoanalytical notions in Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho. The theoretical framework is based on Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. Slavoj Žižek’s idea that the house serves as a symbol of Freud’s concept of the Super-Ego, Ego and Id is presented and further developed. READ MORE