Psychoanalysis.
2023 Apr;34(2):25-38. 10.18529/psychoanal.2023.34.2.25.
Reading Delusions With Psychoanalysis
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
- KMID: 2542035
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.18529/psychoanal.2023.34.2.25
Abstract
- The purpose of this paper was to describe how psychiatric delusion could be understood from Freud’s psychoanalytic point of view. In this paper, psychoanalytic meaning of delusion was explored for a film featuring a man who showed various psychiatric delusions different from a psychiatric patient. The film was <Él> made by director Luis Bunuel in 1952. It was introduced as
in Korea. In the film, Francisco, the main male character, showed various delusional aspects such as erot-ic delusion, paranoia, delusion of persecution, delusion of relationship, delusion of grandeur, and delusion of litigation. Most of all, the plot revolved around the delusion of jealousy that showed doubts about the fidelity of Gloria, his wife. In addition, he had fetishism and obsessive compulsions, which was evident in his sexual desire he felt when he saw Gloria’s feet. In the film, vari-ous symptoms of Francisco showed seem to be scattered without any particular association with jealousy delusion. However, we could see that all of them were so systematically connected when we examined those various symptoms thoroughly from the perspective of combining passion and doubt. In this paper, Freud’s views on each delusion, obsessive compulsive symptoms and fetishism, and some cases he reported were described and a conceptual introduction to passion psychosis was made.
