| Alfred Hitchcock was a famous master of suspense. He was also an able man skilled at provoking anxiety. His many horror films stimulate our repressed basic conflicts including sexual inhibition, castration fear, oedipal strivings, murderous wishes, and guilt.
At the same time, he displays his own personal uniqueness such as an ambivalent attitude to women, asceticism, white supremacy, Catholicism, and oedipal wishes. Hitchcock was an odd genius who captured our attention and curiosity and I regard his many films as a kind of voyeuristic psychodrama played on the screen. |
