Psychoanalytic Theory

task

The object I have chosen to represent fear in the terms of psychoanalytic theory is an overall happy father.

The location to represent fear could be a empty house

Both my object and my location could work in a screenplay well, as I think an  empty house could provoke fear with just the one man who was a father going about his normal business as if there are other family members in the house. However the other family members have been dead for over 10 years now after the father, a local town businessman slaughtered his family. All of the furniture is covered up with thick plastic sheets, amongst this an estate agent is trying to get the man to sell his house as another family want to move in and have seen that only the one man lives there

Film theorists

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud is the founding theory of psychoanalysis. Freud argued that the human mind is partitioned in three parts. The Ego, Super-Ego and Id. The Ego is the most screwed on, sensible and organised part of the mind which has to make sense of the other two. Freud also talked about "the uncanny", "that which reminds us of something from our childhood , long repressed, which now returns in an unfamiliar form", "something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange or uncomfortably familiar"

Jacques Lacan
Jacques is very influenced by Sigmund Freud's work and talks about "mirror phase" which is were children aged from two to three years old Realise that they are not attached to their mother and that they are their own person. Lacan means that we go through life trying to reconnect with the "real" self and sense of fullness that we experienced as children. He also says that we seek the "objet petit a"(the person or thing that will complete us) although it doesn't actually exist.