PSYCHO By Robin Wood, Professor of film studies at York University,Canada . . . . . . . . function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. - Macbeth But if you look at the matter from a theoretical point of view and ignore this question of degree you can very well say that we are all ill, i.e. neurotic; for the conditions required for symptom-formation are demonstrable also in normal persons. - Freud, Introductory Lectures on …showed first 75 words of 4036 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4036 total…was doing when he made the film. This, needless to say, must not affect one's estimate of the film itself. For the maker of Psycho to regard it as a "fun" picture can be taken as his means of preserving his sanity; for the critic to do so-and to give it his approval on these grounds-is quite unpardonable. Hitchcock (again, if his interviews are to be trusted) is a much greater artist than he knows.