Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super-ego...
This form has never changed, but the filmmaker's emphasis certainly has. The orgies of violence and destruction so fully depicted in Humanoids and Friday the 13th represent the id unleashed--in ways de Sade would have admired--but the victory of the super-ego also plays upon the viewer's sadistic urges...
This sound advice, rather than the contrary example of Lippmann's long career, is what the press follows. Nowadays top Washington journalists get White House invitations more as a matter of ego stroking than serious consultations. It is doubtful whether either Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan even faithfully reads the Washington columns. Politicians today hark to the polls, not the pundits; cocooned in their own little circle of strategists, they seem indifferent to outside advice. It is not a world Lippmann could understand or accept...
...stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super-ego...
This form has never changed, but the filmmaker's emphasis certainly has. The orgies of violence and destruction so fully depicted in Humanoids and Friday the 13th represent the id unleashed--in ways de Sade would have admired--but the victory of the super-ego also plays upon the viewer's sadistic urges...