Sentences with phrase «freudian symbolism»

For me, though, in its frank, proto - Freudian symbolism of the worries of the unconscious, it offered strange comfort.

Samuel Fuller's finest Western takes more than a few cues from Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), notably its heavy Freudian symbolism and its strong central female matriarch (Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar and Barbara Stanwyck in Forty Guns).

The Witch Who Came from the Sea is a rape - revenge fantasy couched self - consciously in Jungian / Freudian symbolism, going so far as to illuminate the castration mythology ancillary to Botticelli's «Birth of Venus», giving the film its name and Molly both her modus operandi and inspiration.

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Freudian authors find disguised sexual symbolism and forgotten childhood experiences (e.g., incestual desires or hatred of father or mother) behind every myth.24

The real difference between the «Elegies» and the «Opens» is that the earlier series retains a faint trace of symbolism that can include a Freudian reading of their phallic and testicular shapes, while the latter paintings are more purely visual in their content.