HNC Creative Media

Does Martin Scorsese Represent Fragile Masculinity With Regards To Laura Mulvey's A "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and Aspects of Freudian Theories of Psychoanalysis in "Goodfellas" and "The Wolf of Wall Street"?     Martin Scorsese, regarded by many as "the greatest living director" ( Ricky Gervais, 2020), has always remained true to his sense of self, or auteur approach, within his productions, setting him aside from the norms of Hollywood and breaking the rules of cinema frequently in his productions; in his own rights, Scorsese helped to pave the way for young, aspiring directors and still inspires many to this day. However, many of Scorsese's works have been critisesed for their diminishing view on women, and the deeper messages of both disrespect and insecurity that this conveys. Two films which particularly stood out to me when breaching this subject, for completely adverse reasons, were "Goodfellas...

Freud's Psychoanalytical Theory of Self and Personality Within Relation to Cinema and Film.  What is Freud's theory? Sigmund Freud is seen as a founding father of psychoanalytic study, or study of the human mind and the way that it functions. Freud's "psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behaviour is the result of the interaction between three component parts of the mind: the id, the ego and the superego" ( Karen Horney, 2015).  According to "The Ego and The Id" ( Sigmund Freud, 1923 ), the human personality develops from interactions between these three fundamental structures of the mind.  the Id- the most primitive of the structures, the Id is concerned only with the instant gratification of basic and primitive needs and urges such as sex and desire. The Id operates unconciously meaning that we have no control over it. the Ego- the Ego is the rational and pragmatic part of the human psyche; it is less primitive than...

The Theoretical Perspectives of Freud Freud was " an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human personality. He is regarded as one of the most influential - and controversial - minds of the 20th century.  Freud developed the theory that humans have an unconscious in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with the defences against them. In 1897, he began an intensive analysis of himself. In 1900, his major work 'The Interpretation of Dreams' was published in which Freud analysed dreams in terms of unconscious desires and experiences.   Although the medical establishment disagreed with many of his theories, a group of pupils and followers began to gather around Freud. In 1910, the International Psychoanalytic Association was founded with Carl Jung, a close associate of Freud's, as the president. Jung later broke with Freud and developed his own th...