Inception Essay
Christopher Nolan’s Inception adeptly personifies Dominic Cobb’s psyche as the supporting characters, Mal, Ariadne, and Arthur. The Tripartite concept of the Human Psyche comes from Sigmund Freud’s seminal work “The Formation and Structure of the Human Psyche”. As the audience, we can identify that Arthur plays the ego throughout the film, he remains as a constant personification of Cobb’s personality. Ariadne takes the role of the super ego, or the moral compass. She discerns what is right and wrong, and guides Cobb through decision making and consequences. Mal portrays Cobb’s Id, the primal desires from the deep recesses of his mind. Cobb’s dysfunctional tripartite psyche plays a key role in the events unfolding in the dream layers.
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory states that the unconscious is filled with feelings of pain, anxiety and conflict, these often stem from traumatic experiences and repressed memories. Freud described the mind like an iceberg, where one sevenths of the mind is ‘below …show more content…
This theory is also known as “The Madonna-Whore Complex” The basis of the madonna-whore complex is that sexuality is largely determined by culturally-prescribed scripts, or how we are taught to perceive sexuality. In the modern day western world women are held at a standard of being sexually coy, or unwilling. Freud’s theory develops this into what he believed was a mutually exclusive relationship in which women to whom he was attracted to and desired were disrespected, as they are viewed as a whore for being sexually willing. The madonna is someone that males are not attracted to, and are sexually conservative, thus are respected. Although archaic in ideology and faulted, the sexual script theory gives insight to the dynamic between the two characters Ariadne and Mal and their effects in the plot of
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory states that the unconscious is filled with feelings of pain, anxiety and conflict, these often stem from traumatic experiences and repressed memories. Freud described the mind like an iceberg, where one sevenths of the mind is ‘below …show more content…
This theory is also known as “The Madonna-Whore Complex” The basis of the madonna-whore complex is that sexuality is largely determined by culturally-prescribed scripts, or how we are taught to perceive sexuality. In the modern day western world women are held at a standard of being sexually coy, or unwilling. Freud’s theory develops this into what he believed was a mutually exclusive relationship in which women to whom he was attracted to and desired were disrespected, as they are viewed as a whore for being sexually willing. The madonna is someone that males are not attracted to, and are sexually conservative, thus are respected. Although archaic in ideology and faulted, the sexual script theory gives insight to the dynamic between the two characters Ariadne and Mal and their effects in the plot of