An Abstraction of Application Psychoanalysis on Mona Lisa...

AN ABSTRACTION OF APPLICATION PSYCHOANALYSIS ON MONA LISA SMILE MOVIE By : Yoga Sudarisman In the late 19th century Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud developed a theory of personality and a system of psychotherapy known as psychoanalysis. According to this theory, people are strongly influenced by unconscious forces, including innate sexual and aggressive drives. Sigmund Freud compared the human mind to an iceberg. The tip above the water represents consciousness, and the vast region below the surface symbolizes the unconscious mind. Of Freud’s three basic personality structures—id, ego, and superego—only the id is totally unconscious. Freud believed that everyone experienced the neurosis, basically physiques†¦show more content†¦Sexuality Problem According to Freud, sex and sexuality term are not always associated with coitus (intimate relationship). On the Mona Lisa Smile’s movie, there is unequal relationship between man characters and woman characters; Catherine and her students are smart and active character, meanwhile man c haracter appear as a looser, liar was played by Paul, Bill, and Betty’s husband. Aggressive deed also showed by Catherine when she protests Wellesley’s rule and then she broke Bill’s class, according to Catherine that Feminism can conquer the patriarchal system. There was a great substitution of Father’s profile when Catherine discovered about Bill past in Italy. Catherine has high Super ego, it seemed when all of her stories about love was broken caused by her attitude wants to be a leader. Meanwhile Giselle has free action of sexual, she was born of divorced family when she was young, and Giselle shifted her disappointed to correlate as many as possible with men. Betty also has sexual problem caused by mother’s action dominantly, the marriage is camouflage of complete family that she didn’t have it. Sublimation Sublimation is Technical to use the energy that comes from sexual feelings to do something, such as work or art that is more acceptable to your society. On the movie, Catherine sublimating everything at Wellesley going to be a good model/lecturer that she makes bright of student paradigm about way of