Psychoanalytic Analysis
Write a 3page, double-spaced essay using MLA formatting that provides a psychological analysis of the film Blue Velvet.
Use only one aspect of Freudian or Jungian theory to inform your analysis (e.g. the Oedipus Complex; the tripartite psyche: Id, Ego and Superego; Literary Archetypes; Archetypes of the self: Shadow, Anima, Persona.
Be sure that your essay has a title.
This essay requires two outside sources. Use the college databases MLA or JSTOR to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles on the film. You may use one of the two articles we discuss this week and next for one of your sources.
Be sure that the essay has a Works Cited page.
Here are some suggestions on how to compose the body and conclusion of your essay:
Justify the psychological reading of Blue Velvet by providing bits of dialog, images, plot/thematic elements that Lynch inserts in the movie which support such a reading of the film. Be sure to remember topic sentences.
Analyze the film with specific scenes, images or dialog which demonstrate the concept that you are discussing in your essay. Be sure to remember topic and clincher sentences.
CONCLUSION
Reiterate the main points made in the essay with a summary conclusion and end with a sentence or two that creates a sense of clo
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