Literature Film Quarterly (1991) - Sometimes a Cigar Is not just a Cigar: A Freudian Analysis of Uncle Charles in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt

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• article: Sometimes a Cigar Is not just a Cigar: A Freudian Analysis of Uncle Charles in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt
• author(s): Paul Gordon
• journal: Literature Film Quarterly (1991)
• issue: volume 19, issue 4, page 267
• journal ISSN: 0090-4260
• publisher: Salisbury State University
• Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography (1995) — page 573, #1010
• keywords: "A Hitchcock Reader" - edited by Marshall Deutelbaum and Leland A Poague, "Focus on Hitchcock" - edited by Albert J. LaValley, "Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze" - by William Rothman, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Sarris, Films, François Truffaut, Frenzy (1972), James McLaughlin, Leo Braudy, Lindsay Anderson, New York City, New York, Paul Gordon, Peter Wollen, Psychiatry, Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Robin Wood, Ronnie Scheib, Santa Rosa, California, Sexual behavior, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Sigmund Freud, Strangers on a Train (1951), Suspicion (1941), Teresa Wright, William Rothman

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In his essay "A Special Type of Object Choice Made by Men" ("Über einen besonderen Typus der Objektwahl beim Manne," 1910), Freud talks about men who prefer a particular kind of woman, specifically those whose loose morality results in flirtatious behavior or even prostitution .Also characteristic of this group of neurotic and "ordinary healthy" men is an elevation of the same degraded love object into someone with redeeming virtues, as well as a preference for the added involvement of a "wounded third party," such as a husband or rejected lover.