Hunter wrote:
" I don't think there is any reason to think that freud actually
influenced
hitchcock (though "spellbound" offers an interesting melange of
psychoanalysis and surrealism). to find more concrete biographical
influence
on hitchcock, i think it would be more accurate to look to the jesuits
and
his catholic upbringing."
Hunter, I detect a note of unnecessary snobbism here!! As if good old
'popular entertainer' Hitch could not possibly have ever read a book by
Freud !? In fact, Hitchcock was better read (fiction and non-fiction),
and had a better grasp of art history (of example), than probably you
or I.
The world's greatest expert on Hitchcock's sources and influences is
the Australian scholar Ken Mogg, and his site 'The MacGuffin' is well
worth visiting on this point, as on all others.
Adrian
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