The Dizziness of Freedom: Kubrick - Freud - Jung
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The author analyses Stanley Kubrick's films, taking into consideration the motif of fear and delineating its four types: individual, collective, clinical and cultural. Fear and anxiety constitutes one of the most prominent subjects of Kubricks narratives. His films are particularly rich in examples of collective fears as manifestations of particular anxieties typical for modern Western societies such as the fear of war, terror, nuclear holocaust, terminal disease (AIDS, cancer), violence, and sexuality. The author applies Freudian psychoanalysis and, especially, Jungian notions of archetypes in order to understand better the various drives and urges governing characters behaviour. The thesis of the essay states that fear cannot be perceived only as a destructive force, since it pushes people towards new horizons and thus enables them to enjoy a bigger choice in life. It offers them, as Kierkegaard puts it, the dizziness of freedom.
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Stanley Kubrick, psychoanalysis, Søren KierkegaardReferences
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Artur Piskorzkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Pedagogical Academy in Krakow Poland
Filmoznawca, anglista, tłumacz literatury. Pracownik Instytutu Neofilologii Akademii Pedagogicznej w Krakowie.
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