"Dead Ringers" directed by David Cronenberg. Plot summary and psychonanalysis.

Date Submitted: 08/01/2004 13:18:37
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (603 words)
"Dead Ringers" is a layered film that can be read from a psychoanalytical perspective. "Dead Ringers" centres around identical male twins named Elliot and Beverly, of whom are set up as contrasting personalities. This essay is looking at them through the Sedgwick triangle, the boundaries between self and other. Elliot is the outgoing twin, the one who lectures, accepts awards and also gets all the women, of whom he then passes on to Beverly unbeknownst …
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…Claire, but because they it is slowly dying it is unable to talk, and therefore returns to the apartment and bleeds to death. The film "Dead Ringers" is very layered and complex and is open to a variety of readings. The Eve Sedgwick Homoerotic Triangle helps us grasp the many psycho-plots that occur and the Freudian theory of the "Return of the Repressed" helps us to somewhat decipher the intense, complex and yet fantastic ending.
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