Detailed analysis of Freud's principle of dream interpretation

Jettie 2022-04-22 07:01:31

The following is a detailed analysis of the film "stay" based on Freud's theory of dream interpretation. Two of the main principles of Freud's dream interpretation are:
1. Dreams are the gratification of repressed desires
2. Dreams often transform the material that makes up a dream (including recent events and certain childhood events) in a

preface:
Henry's childhood, lanky, pale, always drawing, had no interest in food, and ate very little. My mother, Maureen Letham, has blue eyes, a depressed housewife, and my father, Leon Letham, a stubborn banker, who longs for her parents to feel for each other. The family lives at 9625 rickover street. His parents often take him to the zoo, and he likes to go to the aquarium to see walruses and take pictures. There is an olive dog at home. But the dog died of a tumor in his liver when Henry was 12 years old. Later, he went to college to study fine arts, and he was no longer close to them, often thinking that they could not identify with him. During college, he was always disheveled and sloppy for a long time. He got paint all over his body, and his mood was unstable. He had a feeling of abandonment. Every handsome guy does. Sometimes he would play chess or something with his father. Later, he met Athena, a temporary waiter at a diner on canal street, and fell in love with her, he always ordered pecan pie and coffee, and although she had never spoken to him outside the restaurant, she felt deja vu. She took acting classes and loved dancing, and he would go to the dance studio under the Brooklyn Bridge to watch her dance with others. But he never dared to express his love to her. Occasionally, she would also see him reading at A.Smith's Art Library. And he exchanged his own paintings for Tristan with the boss. Reveur's book, because that was his favorite painter, the one who burned all his paintings, shot himself on the night of his 21st birthday, and said it was the greatest kung fu of the 19th century, and it was written in his suicide note "A beautiful suicide is the most extreme squat in the world". His behavior is a little weird, and he is often ridiculed and called "weird" and "mentally handicapped". But he has a great talent for painting, but he has never been appreciated and recognized by others. He always crumples his paintings into a ball and says they are all garbage. He often feels the pain in his heart, relies on alcohol and drugs to numb himself, goes to bars to watch dances and drinks, and even once thought of setting himself on fire on the bridge in the car, but the drugs to stabilize him can only be prescribed by a psychiatrist. , and it is difficult for him to create whenever he takes medicine. And on his 21st birthday, he stole a ring from a jewelry store and invited Athena to reunite with his parents to watch the play "Hamlet" on a rainy Saturday. In addition, he and his girlfriend were thrown out of the front windshield when they passed the Brooklyn Bridge on the way home, and the left front tire exploded. And he was dying. A woman came out of the car that followed, and later when she was talking to the police, she vaguely heard her talk about elizbeth.levy. She was standing beside him at a loss and didn't dare to touch his body. The psychiatrist sam catches up to irradiate his eyes with a flashlight to examine him, and the female nurse lila also catches up to help. The two cuddled up to help him, looking like a couple, both calling to him to keep him awake. Other cars also stopped, and people came forward to watch and comment.

There is a joke in the film: King Bo Xi went to the woods to hunt with his entourage, they looked around, suddenly, a farmer came out of the woods at the end of the clearing, "Stop!", the king raised his shotgun and pointed it at the farmer. shouted, the farmer trembled and shouted "I am not an elk!", the king shot and killed him, the entourage was terrified and said, "The farmer said he was not an elk", the king said "Oh, I thought he said he was It's an elk."

A story told by Freud mentioned: After the boy died, his father lit candles all around him. Later, when his father woke up, he dreamed that the boy told him that he was hot, like a fire.

Analysis:
Corresponding places:
1. When Lila and sam knelt down to save him, lila's shirt was rolled up, revealing a small part of her back, and when Athena was sitting in the tower and dancing in the dance studio, a small part was exposed The back corresponds; and Sam's trouser legs rise due to kneeling, revealing a section, which does not emphasize the short section of sam's pants. The close-up of Sam's face looking down at first corresponds to Henry lying down and looking up at them.
2. The strong light from Sam's flashlight irradiating Henry's eyes constitutes an object that connects multiple scenes. The light moment of the spiral and the rotation of the car hub when the car rolls over, the rotation of the building constitutes a number of rotating stairs.
3. Lila's identity as a female nurse echoes that of the female nurse when she was vaccinated against rabies, and she said that he would bleed very much, and he did not stop bleeding.
4. The first witness was Elizbeth.Levy, she didn't touch and move his body, and sam was beside him to check him at the same time. Thus constitutes the dialogue in Beth's office at the beginning of the film. Since he only heard her name to the police when he was carried into the ambulance, his consciousness was already quite blurry, so her surname levy became a female psychiatrist, and the second half of her name beth became sam's a female patient. The word Beth is also worth noting, because beth and bath(e) are pronounced too closely, so there is always a bath scene.
5. Sam's first touch check on him and later finding the ID and ring in his pocket made him and henry feel untrustworthy and even have a physical conflict. Of course, it was also because of the feeling that he had seized his girlfriend next to Lila.
6. At the beginning of the rescue, the phone was mentioned, and sam and lila always said to him "can you hear me", "you'll be fine" and so on, so there are many phone calls in the video, but they often don't hear it The person who came to the ring couldn't hear it clearly, and Lila always said "you'll be fine" to Sam.
7. Lila ran over with obvious high heels, so she was wearing high heels.
8. During the rescue, sam mentioned the pulse and let lila press it, but it became a combination of lila cutting the pulse and suicide, and the female nurse also pressed sam after being bitten by a dog.
9. When sam checked henry's pocket and turned over the documents, the ring was lost, which echoes the fact that sam fell and lost the ring when he was going down the stairs in the tower, and losing the ring became a kind of self-blame and suspicion.
10. We noticed a very large 2121 written on the top of the ambulance, there is a very obvious floor 21 in Lila's studio and there is a 21 mark when Lila goes downstairs.
11. Not to mention, of course, the frequent appearance and pictorialization of forgive me (forgive me) as a representation on walls and paintings.
12. During the onlookers, someone said "He's just a child", this sentence was also said by a struggling patient when sam met another Asian doctor, and the patient was carried out by a group of people, here It seems to echo Henry being tied up by medical staff and carried to the ambulance.
13. Henry heard the baby's voice while watching and saw the baby's arm in the mirror, so sam said he was woken up by the neighbor baby. Only people in the subway hold baby-like toys.
14. Every face in the crowd has a corresponding person. The mother and son are emphasized many times, which seems to imply the relationship between Henry and his mother. Every word of the onlookers also echoes.
15. There are many inverted perspectives during rescue and car accidents, which echoes the weird inverted mirror image of Sam seeing Henry's mother.
16. When Lila came to rescue, she took off her coat, which echoes the words sam and lila said in the room to take off their clothes.

Where the memory disguise was transformed:
1. Elizbeth.Levy said she didn't touch him after the car accident, the word touch became a sexual suggestion when sam ran to meet beth, such as playing kiss games, of course it seemed It has something to do with the slutty female teacher. It may be that the female teacher lured Henry to play kissing games at her house, but Henry rejected her. She said that he was too good and honest. It may also be that he took medicine and alcohol and ended up having an affair with the female teacher, which caused him to feel guilty and worried about Athena, which resulted in a sense of mutual distrust in many places in the film. Of course Beth said he couldn't get along with his patient even though he was pretty, but he obviously chose Lila over Beth.
2. During the rescue, sam said "they are gone", gone itself has two meanings, dead or disappeared and disappeared, so in the film sam and henry have this meaning when they talk at school vague words.
3. During the rescue, we found that there were close-ups of the lips of sam and lila, but they were combined with the mother of the mother and son, because when Henry looked at the fountain, the mother smiled at him ambiguous with heavy makeup, which was very sexual. The reason for this inference is that a conversation with a slutty female teacher was arranged right after the director.
4. Did Henry say it was hail? , which of course echoes the prediction of hail at the beginning, hail and hell are pronounced the same, so there are many references to hell.
5. When Henry was looking at a jewelry store, there was a diamoud exchange. The pronunciation of diamoud is very similar to that of damn it.
6. Henry often goes to a restaurant (dinner), and the word "dinner" is clearly emphasized in the film. Interestingly, there are many places marked with danger. dinner==danger, so much fun.
7. The ambiguity of the phrase "he's not going to make it" has also been transformed, and the transformation of not going to make it to fame.
8. Henry says he's out of breath, which is another reason why he doesn't always smoke.
9. The collar of the clothes that lila was wearing during the rescue had small black spots, which was exactly the same as the wallpaper decoration of sam's office and similar to the whole row of lockers in the hallway when sam and lila met for the first time. The style of her uniform and the flashing rings on the firemen's arms make up Sam's outfit once at home. There seems to be a similar metaphorical transformation on the façade of the kitchen with countless shining points.
10. There is a peculiar decoration on the door of A.Smith's art library, two rectangular things, which are similar to the decoration in sam's office.
11. Note that the word check appears three times in the video, it represents the call of the check when playing chess, so there are several large chess pieces decorations in sam's office, and chess pieces when playing chess with leon It turned into a building near the Brooklyn Bridge. Leon also said the word when he met with Sam after he regained his sight, but the meaning was really accurate.
12. Please pay attention to the balloons in the mother and child, because there is no balloon in the hands of the child at the scene of the car accident. The pronunciation of balloon and blew are similar. The car accident happened because the front tire exploded. Sam said to Henry, front tire blew. And the mother said, it's okay, we can get another one in the park, the park is when henry was looking at the fountain, the mother and son appeared, but obviously the image of the mother is obviously different, the makeup is on, the hair is scattered, the front is about the red lips sexual innuendo has been mentioned. During the rescue, the child said "is that man gonna die?", and the mother told him to stay and not get separated from her. Therefore, mother and child always appear holding hands. The child said that sentence many times, and in one place, the mother called him baby, and the fountain became bobby, baby=bobby. This is not a coincidence. So why is the hanging piano? We found that when the mother and son were talking to the rescue, sam happened to say the ambulance "ambulance", which combined with the sling of the Brooklyn Bridge, so the mother and son kept the balance of the grand piano and "balance" appeared at the same time.
13. There are many hints in the film that sam and henry are the transformation of the same person, the same repetition of sam and henry's footsteps and the small stairs, the cat's eye in Sam's house is the same as that of henry's house, the connection of the rings, and the perspectives of the two people's pictures in many places Conversions also bear this out.
14. Please pay attention to the word stay in the title of the film. It appeared many times during the rescue. Therefore, when sam watched Athena read the dialogue in the tower, the black man said that I don’t know why. related. Similarly, there are a lot of cops (cops) after the car accident, so the film is always haunted by cops, even directly mentioning the word cop in the dinner, and the transformed word corpse (corpse) appears when sam bathes beth. And what beth said at that time pointed to the logic of the film: we don't turn into actual corpses, because that sounds like total memory loss. The implication is that we still have memories after we die. And sam also said the word "crap" to the appropriate, which can mean dirty and of course crap.
15. In sam's bedroom decor, the blue Brooklyn Bridge is painted at different angles, the stone and brick structures on both sides, those silver cabinets. The flat iron ornaments above the kitchen, the spiral metal objects in the office. Of course, those pictures with obvious depth are also related to the bridge.
16. Why are there so many people with silver suitcases (pockets) in the film? Henry also said it was a hard case because sam said he was going to search his pocket?
17. The words dog and dog appear in many places, which is obviously the bonding and transformation of children's memories.
18. A black man interrupted the conversation between sam and henry in the office. His name was Fredrick, and fred-rick was obviously a combination of afraid+rickover. Because lila made henry "don't be afraid".
19. At the beginning, sam was riding his bicycle on the red iron bridge, two people wearing bicycle helmets were walking to the right, and a person wearing a hat came up. Obviously there will be no accidents if you ride a bicycle, which is confused with the sign on the Brooklyn Bridge corridor that pedestrians stay on the left and bicycles are on the right. Strangers on bicycles also wear helmet-like hats, but the real bicycle helmets are put on the heads of pedestrians.

Henry's psychological desires and motivations:
1. Self-blame for the death of his relatives
2. Hope that the car accident did not happen
3. Hope that he expresses his love to his girlfriend and gets married
4. Desire to be understood and recognized for his creations

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Extended Reading

Stay quotes

  • Henry Letham: An elegant suicide is the ultimate work of art.

  • Lila Culpepper: You know, the day I did it, I took two razorblades to the bathtub. You know why? Because I knew that once I started to bleed, I'd get weak. And I didn't wanna drop one blade and leave myself half done. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine hating your life so much that you'd wanna bring a backup razor?