Thorn rape: the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock and the theory of image in Sigmund Freud

This present work assumes that suspense, as represented in the work of filmmaker Alfred Hichtcock, produces images of a way the psychic apparatus works analogous to the one marked by the Freudian model. By articulating Hitchcock films to the dimension of image in Freud, we seize to highlight a certain autonomy of the imagetic registry in Freudian theory. If psychoanalytic praxis has in its praxis its fundamental contribution, we cannot forget that images also produce psychic effects, especially in circumstances where it exceeds the record of language. Therefore, we do not wish to use psychoanalysis as a theoretical tool for thinking the film but aim at a perspective where the filmic image can offer visibility to psychic processes known only by its effects. Thus, the cinematic construction helps us to glimpse the unconscious formations present in Freudian texts.

image; language; Hitchcock; Freud