Hitchcocks angst

Abstract

Fear is a basic condition in the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, and behind this fear bides the threatening mother. Fear can be overcome by taking it as an experience, and the mother by identifying with her. Through a refined suspense technique Hitchcock makes
his audience identify with some of his worst criminals, like Anthony Perkins in »Psycho«. Crime is for Hitchcock what neurosis was for Freud: a magnifying-glass that allows us to see clearly our own repressions, our own dark side.