CATEGORY: MOVIES
Within Hannibal Lecter's unconscious, Clarice Starling represents his sister, Mischa, with whom he was very close and who was killed and cannibalized as a child during World War II.[a] One thing being represented by Lecter's attempt to unite with Starling, is his attempt to unite with Mischa, and accordingly, an attempt to unite with a component of his unconscious (Jung called this component the anima). As Jung says, "That is one of the great difficulties in experiencing the unconscious—that one identifies with it and becomes a fool. You must not identify with the unconscious; you must keep outside, detached, and observe objectively what happens."[b]
a. Mischa Lecter is a character in the 2007 film, Hannibal Rising, which is a prequel to Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal.
b. Jung, C. G. The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C. G. Jung. Ed. Sonu Shamdasani. Princeton University Press, 1996. Google Books, pp. 82-83. URL = https://books.google.com.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
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