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Oct 22, 2023 · 4. The Oedipal Complex: Freud’s theory of the Oedipal complex sheds light on the strained relationship between Jack and his son, Danny. Jack’s desire to possess the hotel and his growing...
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- The Uncanny, The Gothic and The Loner
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As Simone Murray suggests, Adaptation Studies has developed beyond its ‘previously core business of comparative aesthetic evaluation...to that of ideologically alert deconstruction’ (Murray 4). However, even with these advances the approach still focuses on ‘scrutinising adapted texts’, situating itself at the end of the culture industry production...
Psychoanalytic thought underlines much of Kubrick’s work, most obviously seen in The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick 1999). In archive documents from the development of The Shining there are written references to Sigmund Freud, his pupil Karen Horney, Bruno Bettelheim, and the more contemporary thinker Simon O. Lesser (SKA/1/1). Kubrick...
The haunted house narrative was key to King’s book and there were far more manifestations of this, including topiary animals coming to life, that did not translate in to Kubrick’s screen version. Diane Johnson explains: Kubrick explored the concept of the haunted house and in development notes he writes: ‘What are manifestations of a haunted house?...
The ending of Kubrick’s film differs greatly from the ending of King’s book, in which Halloran arrives in the Snowcat and rescues Danny and Wendy, leaving Jack to perish in the hotel as the boiler explodes. In Kubrick’s version Jack kills Halloran (Scatman Crothers) when he arrives to rescue Danny and Wendy. Danny outwits Jack in the maze and escap...
By returning to the literature used to shape the adaptation of the film, The Shiningcan be analysed through a sharper lens, providing a more complete understanding of the film, the filmmaker’s intentions and the adaptation process. The new evidence from the archives triangulated with the interviews and textual analysis introduces a new discourse on...
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The concept of “shining,” or having a deep, psychic connection with the world and its past, exposes Jack’s son Danny to the hotel’s sinister history, suggesting a recurring pattern of violence. This could be seen as a critique of society’s inability to break away from past atrocities, forever doomed to repeat them.
Claire Hanson states that “The Shining follows a male journey through the Oedipus complex, the journey of Danny,” because Jack, the father, and Danny, the son, are rivals within the framework of the Oedipus complex (145). Although Danny’s age is much elder than the child at the Oedipal stage, in whom “the Oedipus
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May 7, 2020 · Progressive critiques of Freud have often asked whether we should take his ideas as proscriptive or descriptive; that is, is the Oedipus complex something meant to describe all human history or...
In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.
Oedipal and postoedipal conflicts are not absent, but they seem to pale in comparison with issues that appear to lay the groundwork for and to go deeper than the conflicts of everyday life interpersonal problems and their intrapsychic counterparts.
