Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies (Dec 2017)

A Denial, Fetishism and Perversion in Vertigo (1958)

  • Basilio CASANOVA VARELA

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 4
pp. 183 – 192

Abstract

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In this work we analyze the presence of the psychic mechanism of denial in Vertigo (1958), by Alfred Hitchcock. We focus especially on credit titles, as well as on those sequences that help us visualize that defensive mechanism that leads to the cleavage of self.

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