Could you please help? I think I have missed them. I know her father used to beat her when she was a child, and she used to enjoy the beatings and defaceting...so?
And why was she acting so insane in the first scene when she was being brought to the clinic?
It looked like maybe she was struggled with her sexual desires, at first I thought she was a nymphomaniac but I'm not sure. Could also be that she struggled with the memory of her father shaming her and dealt with those feelings my constantly shaming herself. She seemed to get better when she finally talked about her past and her true feelings/desires. This is just my own interpretation however.
Badger my ass its probably Milhouse
Münchausen syndrome, cured by being shot.
shareShe was acting insane because she was suffering from hysterics.
The cure was psycho analysis and getting the patient to talk about her problems. Finding the source for her problems. Relatively new at the time.
Straightedge means I'm better than you.
She definitely was NOT a nymphomaniac. She was a virgin. Her inability to deal with and her repression of her sexual feelings caused hysteria. The film collapses a long period of time when she was in therapy with Jung, and he was using the "talking" cure, basically Freud's new idea of psychotherapy. Eventually, when she was able to talk about the root of her problem, to admit she felt sexual excitement when beaten by her father, she reached catharsis and her hysterical behavior began to dissipate. So much so that while she was uncontrollable at the film's start that about 1/2 way through, she became a student of psychotherapy herself and made her own contributions to the field (the death theory).
shareHysteria comes from the root word hyster, which means uterus. It was thought in Victorian times and in the early 20th Century that women suffered mental disorders from lack of sexual release. Manual stimulation by the physician was employed. With the dawning of Psychiatry, things changed somewhat. The use of the term hysterical is antiquated and sexist.
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