DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE

Dario Argento and the Mother-Witch: Psychoanalysis of an Obsessive Image. This paper tries to present the complexity of the maternal figures in the work and biography of film director Dario Argento. The methods of interpretation are inspired by psychoanalysis, because Argento often referred to Freu...

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Main Author: Ioan POP-CURȘEU
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2020-04-01
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Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2705
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description Dario Argento and the Mother-Witch: Psychoanalysis of an Obsessive Image. This paper tries to present the complexity of the maternal figures in the work and biography of film director Dario Argento. The methods of interpretation are inspired by psychoanalysis, because Argento often referred to Freud’s writings in his films or in his recent autobiography, Fear, published in 2014. The criminal mothers depicted in some films signed by Dario Argento show, through violent narratives, the difficulties he had in dealing with the maternal imago. But the most striking embodiments of the maternal monstrosity are to be found in the figure of the mother-witch, in the trilogy composed by Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980), La Terza Madre (2007). The mother-witch has, of course, biographical sources, but its presence in some classical fairy-tales or in fin-de-siècle decadent literature also inspired the film director.
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spelling doaj-art-3ca34ebffbdf42bb892aea5a26ff782e2025-08-20T03:58:17ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072020-04-0165110.24193/subbphil.2020.1.02DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTEIoan POP-CURȘEU0Associate Professor PhD, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: ioancurseu@yahoo.com. Dario Argento and the Mother-Witch: Psychoanalysis of an Obsessive Image. This paper tries to present the complexity of the maternal figures in the work and biography of film director Dario Argento. The methods of interpretation are inspired by psychoanalysis, because Argento often referred to Freud’s writings in his films or in his recent autobiography, Fear, published in 2014. The criminal mothers depicted in some films signed by Dario Argento show, through violent narratives, the difficulties he had in dealing with the maternal imago. But the most striking embodiments of the maternal monstrosity are to be found in the figure of the mother-witch, in the trilogy composed by Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980), La Terza Madre (2007). The mother-witch has, of course, biographical sources, but its presence in some classical fairy-tales or in fin-de-siècle decadent literature also inspired the film director. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2705Dario Argento, psychoanalysis, biography, witchcraft, mother-witch, fairy-tales, literature
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DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
Dario Argento, psychoanalysis, biography, witchcraft, mother-witch, fairy-tales, literature
title DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE
title_full DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE
title_fullStr DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE
title_full_unstemmed DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE
title_short DARIO ARGENTO ET LA MÈRE-SORCIÈRE : PSYCHANALYSE D’UNE IMAGE OBSÉDANTE
title_sort dario argento et la mere sorciere psychanalyse d une image obsedante
topic Dario Argento, psychoanalysis, biography, witchcraft, mother-witch, fairy-tales, literature
url https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2705
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