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Freud's Oz: Freudian Views In The Wizard Of Oz
Beginning of Essay
The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of
returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire
time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets
back home she tells Aunt Em that "all I kept saying .... Middle of Essay
.... is by looking at this dream compared with real ones,
and using modern dream analogy from the Freudian perspective.
The act that spurs the entire action of the movie, according to
Freudian Daniel Dervin ( Over The Rainbow 163 ), is Dorothy witnessing the
"primal scene". The "primal scene" refers to a child witnessing sexual
intercourse between mother and father; an moment that is both terrifying
and confusing to the child. According to Dervin, this event sends Dorothy
towards her final stage of childhood development ( Freud believed in three
stages of childhood development ) the phallic phase. Terrified of the idea
of being destroyed by father's ....
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