Psychoanalysis

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2020)

In the story, the heroine's feelings for Hannibal are very complicated. He has both his idealistic traits, such as professionalism, calmness, restraint, keen insight, and fear of him as a brutal attacker. Therefore, the heroine is more an idealized empathy for Hannibal than the Oedipus complex of Oedipus. Because the heroine does not lack father's love, in the critical period of psychological development (1-3, 3-6, 6-10), the father has always existed as a good object (betting on the object of feelings). Hannibal and his father are not the same kind of person. The heroine's internal courage, courage, and perseverance are all derived from the identification of his father. And Hannibal is more like that ideal self (of course, this refers to the positive side).
The whole story of the play is driven by the traumatic needs of the heroine. Saving the daughter of the MP is the need to save the lost object. Working with Hannibal is the need for idealization. Killing the Buffalo Bill is the need to defeat the attacker. And these three people perfectly played the role of the heroine to fulfill these psychological needs. All in order to silence the lamb in Starling's heart.