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Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of returning
home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz is
spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells
Aunt Em that "all I kept saying to everybody was ‘I want to go home.'" This
fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wi ....
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.... the child.
According to Dervin, this event sends Dorothy towards her final stage of
childhood development ( Freud believed in three stages of childhood development
) the phallic phase. Terrified of the idea of being destroyed by father's
phallus, Dorothy projects ( another of Freud's ides was that of projection,
turning a feeling into something other than itself ) her fear into the form of
the tornado. In deed Dervin even suggests that this tornado "may well be a
remarkably apt repr ....
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