Abstract
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining might seem like an entirely dissimilar film, but it can play a role in reinterpreting Vertigo through confirmation bias. Both films have crucial moments that occur on stairs, which a conventionally Freudian analysis would describe in terms of psychosexual fear. Interpreted in different ways, however, this fear can be flipped on its head to serve as a signifier of psychosexual appetite, which in turn can be seen as a call for sexual liberty. In this way, we return to the contronym and elaborate it in a new direction.
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Belton, R.J. (2017). Vertigo, Kubrick’s The Shining, Spellbound and Liberty. In: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55188-3_7
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