An Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationship in MirrorMask Film Directory

The theory of psychoanalysis, which emerged almost in the same years as the art of cinema, was influential on the cinema as it was on other branches of art; has offered a broader perspective, especially in film and character analysis and has been effective in revealing deeper meanings. According to Freud, the Elektra complex is the root of the adolescent girl’s clash with her parents who are fellow beings; according to Jung, it is the mother complex. Emotions related to these definitions reappear in adolescence. The severity of the adolescent and parent clash varies according to the parenting attitudes. Before analyzing Dave McKean’s MirrorMask, the reasons for the mother-daughter conflict are explained in the context of Freud’s Elektra complexity, Jung’s mother complex, puberty characteristics, and Baumrind’s parental attitudes. Jung’s loving parents-the awful mother or shadow goddess, described as the positive-negative mom archetypes, meet Baumrind’s democratic motherauthoritarian mother types. Film theorists seem to benefit from Freud’s theory rather than the Jungian approach in the psychological analysis of films. In this article, in a different way, the film MirrorMask was examined with a Jungian approach rather than a Freudian analysis