Psychological Perspectives (2011) - Vertigo: Out of the Past
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- article: Vertigo: Out of the Past
- author(s): Richard Blennerhassett
- journal: Psychological Perspectives (01/Jan/2011)
- issue: volume 54, issue 1, pages 54-65
- DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2011.547123
- journal ISSN: 0033-2925
- keywords: Vertigo (1958)
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Abstract
2008 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of doomed romanticism. Its reception on its original release was a disappointment to Hitchcock, but over the years it has received one of acclaim. Vertigo is Hitchcock's most personal film and, like a fairy tale, attracts many meanings. In it he gives us a glimpse of his soul, and, via the archetype of anima, we see reflected our own desires and longing for a lost paradise.