the internet is filled with people roasting Kanti Shah’s 1998 meme-of-a-movie, Gunda. but in this film analysis, I wish to take Gunda more seriously through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis.
References
– DEATH DRIVE – Freudian Psychoanalysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbdMwxrM6iQ
– Lacan on Perversion (1/3) : Derek Hook interviews Meera Lee – Perversion from Freud to Lacan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mij5K_-BENI
– Perversion, Degeneration, and the Death Drive. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jj.5501036.8.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A1e224b23256e258f5a80abfa2daf2b56&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
Special Thanks
Aditya Dighe
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glossary
promiscuous – having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships.
sadomasochism – the giving and receiving of pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.
libido – libido is psychic drive or energy, usually conceived as sexual in nature, but sometimes conceived as including other forms of desire.
castration – the state of being deprived of power, vitality, or vigour.
primitive – relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of society