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Psychoanalytical Viewing of Citizen Kane

Title: Psychoanalytical Viewing of Citizen Kane
Category: /Arts & Humanities/Film & TV
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Psychoanalytical Viewing of Citizen Kane
PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE ***The study of Charles Foster Kane's relationship with his mother and the subsequent consequences of their separation.*** Kane's insecurity as a result of the loss of his childhood innocence, is illustrated for his desire to "cash in his capital and turn it onto concrete objects". Thus diminishing his risk of suffering premature loss of things he is close to, and therefore causing further damage to his conscious and subconscious self. Kane buries his …showed first 75 words of 886 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 886 total…concrete objects." p.109 "This massive accumulation of 'things' is set in the context of a lifetime that has attempted to freeze and preserve a traumatic moment of loss." "Fetishism, according to Freud's theory, bears witness to the human psyche's ability to maintain knowledge and beliefs simultaneously." p. 109 "The fetish interjects an object between memory and the actual traumatic moment at the same time. The object also marks the place of the lost memory it masks."

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