Part of the appeal of Stanton’s Finding Nemo (2003) is its admirable characters. However, one character, Marlin, behaves in a way that makes him particularly interesting to examine. Marlin’s story begins with the loss of his wife and children after his failed attempt to fight the barracuda who attacked them. The only other survivor is one of his sons, whom Marlin names Nemo and becomes immensely overprotective of. When Nemo grows up and is ready to attend school, Marlin is horrified to see as Nemo, out of defiance of his father, swims out into the ocean to touch a boat and get captured by a diver. Marlin then embarks on a journey with Dory, a forgetful fish who helps Marlin travel across the ocean to get back his son. Marlin encounters various …show more content…
Using Freud’s psychoanalytic theory can unveil the unconscious thoughts, conflicts, and experiences that guide Marlin’s behaviour (Larsen et al., 2020). Specifically, psychoanalysis can help explain Marlin’s anxiety, how his behaviour reflects this anxiety through defence mechanisms, and how his behaviour indicates a fixation at the oral stage. Firstly, Marlin is an anxious character whose internal worries can be categorized as moral anxiety. This anxiety emerges from conflict between the ego and the superego (Larsen et al., 2020). Because the expectations the superego places on an individual are high, and sometimes unattainable, it can overwhelm the ego, causing shame when those goals cannot be achieved (Larsen et al., 2020). This anxiety is characteristic of Marlin. Before the barracuda attack, Marlin held expectations for himself that were difficult to manage. He wanted to provide his family with an extraordinary life. When this expectation to provide the best was ruined by the barracuda, which was out of his control, he felt guilty for surviving and failing to meet this …show more content…
This thought is not desirable for Marlin, because keeping Nemo home means keeping him out of school and preventing him from exploring. As such, Marlin projected his feelings onto Nemo, easing the moral anxieties that emerged from this complex situation. Another defence mechanism Marlin uses is repression, which involves keeping unpleasant thoughts and memories out of conscious awareness to avoid the anxiety they cause (Larsen et al., 2020). Accordingly, throughout the movie, Marlin never once speaks about the loss of his wife and children. Although the attack may fuel his fear of the ocean, he never mentions the barracuda attack or his family, as his ego tries to manage the moral anxiety of having failed to provide them a wonderful life and home. The beginnings of this repression process can be seen towards the end of the movie when Marlin and Dory temporarily think Nemo is dead, which would mean that Marlin had once again failed to uphold his intense expectations. Dory tries to stay with Marlin, confessing that she does not want to forget him and this
In Finding Nemo, the audience sees how Marlin has a call to adventure which is a typical feature of the archetypal hero’s life. Marlin’s son Nemo was at his first day at school, he wants to show how he was not a
Marlin received the call and took the challenge. When Nemo went to the first day of school he wandered off into the ocean. He went to go touch the boat and he was trapped by a fisher. Marlin didn't
Finding Nemo is the story of a clownfish, Marlin, who’s only son gets taken by Australian scuba divers. Marlin, even with plenty of grief over losing his wife and other babies, goes through great lengths, fears and people to get his son back. He meets other animals and learns from them the importance of living your life and not worrying about the past as he tries to get his son Nemo back.
When this story is viewed through Sigmund Freud’s “psychoanalytic lens” the novel reveals itself as much more than just another gory war novel. According to Sigmund Freud psychology there are three parts of the mind that control a person’s actions which are the id, ego, and superego. Psychoanalysis states that there are three parts of the human mind, both conscious and subconscious, that control a person’s actions. The Id, ego, and
A motherless tiny clown fish named Nemo who was born with a birth defect, and was raised by his overprotective father, is for the first time allowed to go to school. His friends dare him to swim into the open sea and touch the "butt." Meaning to spite his dad and fit in with his new-found friends, Nemo swims all the way out to the “butt” and touches it forever changing his life. Giving into the peer pressure resulted in a series of unfortunate events that shapes young Nemo’s character forever.
Marlin's journey begins with his “call to adventure.” The call of adventure was the capturing of his son by a scuba diver.Nemo’s friends dared him to touch the “butt” of the boat in order to prove he’s brave. His dad follows Nemo and finds him in the middle of the ocean. He tells Nemo to return to the platform before the scuba diver captures him.Nemo then yells for his father’s help and Marlin starts to panic. His apprehensive personality is the cause of his internal
Psychoanalysis is the method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts (“Psychoanalysis”). This transfers to analyzing writing in order to obtain a meaning behind the text. There are two types of people who read stories and articles. The first type attempts to understand the plot or topic while the second type reads to understand the meaning behind the text. Baldick is the second type who analyzes everything. Since his article, “Allure, Authority and Psychoanalysis” discusses the meaning behind everything that happens in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” we can also examine “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” in the same manner.
In the movie Finding Nemo, there is a father name Marlin, and a little son named Nemo. The personality of Nemo is he is an off the wall little clown fish that likes to take chances and is what we would call a hyper-active child. He likes to bounce around, take adventures without his dad being around, and somewhat despises his dad for always wanting to be right by his side. Till the day that acting out gets him in trouble. One day heading to school him and his dad, Marlin, get in an argument that makes Nemo want to rebel just like a little child would. So while at school he wants to prove to everyone that he can do everything anyone else could just ...
Stories are our essence of life. They grow and change with us. They allow us to reconstruct the pas, and put our slant on things. They don’t’ have make sense, and they don’t all have to be fact. That’s what kind of story this is.
defined as a person X has a personal identity if and only if they have the same
For my video paper I chose to do a Pixar movie called Finding Nemo. Although Pixar movies are more aimed for the younger generations, it is becoming more popular for these movies to be introduced in the classrooms. In our DeVito text it shows and explains all the different forms of communication that can be related back to Finding Nemo. Along with other Pixar movies, they all portray many different aspects of communication. Nonverbal communication is presented in the movie by using gestures/movement. Although cartoon characters are not actually real people in the movie, they are created by real people who have experienced nonverbal communication in their lives.
Marlin is a clownfish who, along with his wife, lives on the edge of a coral reef in an anemone. He is what anyone can guess, a "newlywed." He, along with his wife Coral, lives in the anemone where they have just laid a spawn of eggs. They come to a quick decision of what to name their children. Half will be named Marlin Jr. and the other half will be named Coral Jr. Although there decisions were made quickly Coral wants to name one child Nemo.
Marlow becomes removed from society in the jungles of the Congo where he is forced to adapt to extreme conditions both physically and mentally these conditions force Marlow to change the way he thinks about things historically and geographically. In order to better understand Marlow’s mental journey and how the challenges in the jungle changed him, it is necessary to inspect the mind through the method of psychoanalysis. There are three different types of psychoanalysis th...
In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, pits his strength against forces he cannot control. We learn from Santiago's struggles how to face insurmountable odds with bravery and courage. Though we find an indifferent and hostile universe as Santiago's stage, his unwillingness to give in to these forces demonstrate a reverence for life's struggles. Santiago's struggle is for dignity and meaning in the face of insurmountable odds. His warrior-like spirit fights off the sharks full-well knowing the fate of his marlin. Santiago loses his marlin in the end, but his struggle to keep it represent a victory because of the dignity and heroism with which he carries out his mission. However, as Santiago acknowledges, he is almost sorry he caught the marlin because he knows the animal and he have a great deal in common as fellow beings in nature. However, he only caught the marlin "through trickery" (Hemingway 99). Santi...
In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway transfers his own emotional burdens of World War I to his characters. Although considered to be fiction, the plot and characters of Hemingway’s novel directly resembled his own life and experience, creating a parallel between the characters in the novel and his experiences. Hemingway used his characters to not only to express the dangers of war, but to cope and release tension from his traumatic experiences and express the contradictions within the human mind. Hemingway’s use of personal experiences in his novel represents Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory regarding Hemingway’s anxieties and the strength and dependency that his consciousness has over his unconsciousness. Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory of Personality states the Superego as being the part of personality that is most conscious, holds moral standards, develops senses of right and wrong and suppresses any urges or desires that are considered unacceptable (McLeod).