One of the most explicitly Freudian films was released in 1948. The Dark Past starred Lee J. Cobb as a psychoanalyst who scopes out home invader William Holden's affliction. While I don't think he was a detective, the process looked a lot like a work of detection.
Doesn't Freud himself liken his work to being a detective?
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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