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Thank you, Ken, for once again making clear and helpful points! I'd only add that the woman in "Murder!" is also a vehicle for Hitchcock's satire on "the new thought" and other such folderol that flourished around the turn of the last century. But the other postings are indeed off target. The point isn't whether Freud was correct about this or that -- it's what aspects of, and to what degree, psychoanalytic theory played a part in the intellectual underpinnings of his work, and how Hitchcock's uses of Freiud position him vis-a-vis one of the three or four most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, agree with psa or not. As for the slap at the great, ever-inspiring Melies, read Tom Gunning on the cinema of attractions, or Antonia Lant on haptic cinema, or Terry Gilliam on Melies as a living influence on his work, or......... David Sterritt, PhD Chairman, National Society of Film Critics Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film Long Island University Programming Associate Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0 * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **