Freudian Interpretation Of Inception

The film Inception describes our human dream wonders,while allowing the dream to return to Freud,Jung’s understanding.It describes the dreams and alludes to the reality as well. Nowadays, with the development of human material civilization, the material life is getting more and more abundant. On the contrary, the human spirit is confronted with various crises. It narrates the hero’s heart from the loss to the return and conveys the director Christopher Nolan’s deep thinking of the real world. Regarding to the human eternal theme:love, Nolan conveys the happy desire of holding your hand and growing old with you but he also reveals the incompletion and imperfectness of the reality. The film also reflects the contemporary people’s dislocation between the dreams and the reality. People are eager to find out the ideal spiritual homeland in the modern materialistic society,desire a sanctuary for their souls and ultimately lose themselves between the reality and dreams. The film shows Nolan’s anxiety whether the man can return to the life in the multimedia era of information explosion at a deep level.The human dream is the most direct way for exploring the subconsciousness and provided a new approach to discern humanity.The director Christopher Nolan accepts the theory of Freud’d phychoanalysis by choice, mingles his comprehension and applies the new angle of dreams to the film Inception which takes him ten years to produce and achieves great he had planned for almost ten years, in which he achieved great success, forming a new trend for the dreams’studies in psychology and subconscious research. The thesis discusses and analyzes mainly from three aspects.The first aspect is the film’s dreams,using Freud’s theory of subconsciousness and exploring the relationship between the dreams, using Freud’s theory of subconsciousness and exploring the relationship between the dreams and subconsciousness and their presentation in the film to excavate the hero’s inner emotion in a deeper lever. The second is on the hero’s personal structure. It analyzes the process that the hero experiences from self-ego to super-ego and his emotion sublimates from love to family, in terms of id, ego, super-ego and ego’s defensive mechanism. The third part is the realistic significance of the film. The film describes Cobb’s mental journey and leaves the audience to the serious consideration of the actual world as well.