know little Billy Wilder film , however I can assure you The Seven Year Itch is not his best comedy. What I dare to venture is that it is one of the most iconic films, because beyond apartments and Lemmon and Curtis in drag, if there is a more recognizable than any other throughout the history of cinema is the skirt of Marilyn Monroe mischievously because rising air from a New York subway grate. Indisputable icon that comes from the aforementioned comedy.
In The Seven Year Itch ( The Seven Year Itch , 1955) Serman know Richard (Tom Ewell ) on a hot August in New York, which is custom in all middle-class family man is working while his wife and children take a vacation away from the city. In this context he finds a new neighbor, a gorgeous Marilyn that give visitors a very warm flushing of context. During the course of history, Richard is also a psychoanalyst known for a brief but hilarious scene, causing more of a sarcastic reference reference this psychology.
should not surprise anyone, since psychoanalysis as a theory has been widely (not discuss here whether justifiably or not) criticism and ridicule from most psychological perspectives, from its founding to today. His science has been systematically questioned from the academic and scientific and attacks on its validity and reliability have become usual. This film is reflected in a fun way that suspicion. However, paradoxically, after all the whole film lies a fundamental assumption that Freud widely recognized in his work and he named the "Civilization and Its Discontents" . Based on the psychoanalytic principle that human behavior is governed by impulses, basically sex drive and the aggressive drive, Freud says that living in community, the individual is forced to curb these instincts. Since humans are social beings and organized in this way throughout history to develop different cultures, has experienced increasingly greater pressure to curb his impulses, which ultimately ends up causing discomfort and guilt.
The Seven Year Itch shows the particular case of a man who, on the one hand, you want to give in to sexual temptation that is his attractive neighbor, but on the other side is not willing to give family life has managed to build and maintain. Constantly torn between what the culture dictates as correct, and what your body actually indicated as desirable. And on top of this behavior "wrong" policy is just being as around all men obey their instincts without thinking, mental cocoa generated no psychologist or psychoanalyst to fix it.
do not pretend to justify or validate psychoanalysis as a theory of mind, but simply note that what is critical momentarily in the film is really defending throughout the plot. Who knows whether purposefully or, to use Freudian concepts unconsciously.
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