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In Dreams: A Freudian Analysis of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway
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Finley, Ethan Andrew
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Year and Degree
2013, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
Abstract
The film art of David Lynch is undoubtedly some of the most bizarre, mysterious, and difficult being made by an American filmmaker. As such numerous interpretations and theoretical lenses can and have been applied to Lynch’s work in an effort to decode, unlock, or make clear and sensible what is otherwise an enigmatic body of work. The project of this essay then, is to bring bear upon Lynch’s work, a theoretical lens and concomitant reading that is both fruitful and largely ignored in scholarship on Lynch’s films. The theoretical lens in mind is that of Freud’s psychoanalysis, in particular his theory of dreams, and to lesser extent, his theory of mourning and melancholia. The objects of study will be two films of David Lynch that lend themselves to interpretation as film representations of dreams. The films in question are Mulholland Dr. (2001) and Lost Highway (1997).
Committee
Eugene Holland (Advisor)
Dana Renga (Committee Member)
Sean O'Sullivan (Committee Member)
Pages
167 p.
Subject Headings
Comparative
;
Film Studies
Keywords
Freud
;
dreams
;
psychoanalysis
;
David Lynch
;
Mulholland Dr
;
Lost Highway
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Finley, E. A. (2013).
In Dreams: A Freudian Analysis of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385495386
APA Style (7th edition)
Finley, Ethan.
In Dreams: A Freudian Analysis of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway.
2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385495386.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Finley, Ethan. "In Dreams: A Freudian Analysis of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385495386
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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