Btw, any fans of the Hitchcock movie Spellbound? Great score and fun dream sequence from Dali. A little too heavy on the psychobabble and I felt embarrassed for Gregory Peck every time he fainted. C'mon, everyone knows that people don't faint during psychotherapy, they just cry like babies. Wonderful early Hitchcock, though; up there with Rebecca.

Zach

sure sure...I love that flick. Vertigo will always be the most psychologically intense of his films for me, but there are some great resonances in Spellbound, like the obsession with black lines on a white surface that's a projection surface for repressed memories. But it is a little too tidy the way every image is like a coded puzzle piece of memory whose signified can be so easily and absolutely construed.

It seems that Ms. Mori has a neurosis, probably an inferiority complex, stemming from trauma sustained in the late Oedipal Stage--exacerbated by her Elektra Complex.

I like to see Mori as a schizoid agent of disjunction rather than a neuroticized Elektra-maiden green with envy over her gaping lack of phallic discourse. so come on down, sinner-friends, to Fast Oeddie's Used Psychobabble -- "Subjectivizin Folks Since the Invention of Sin" _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963