THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF

“THE TEACHER PIANO”

MOVIE BY SIGMUND FREUD
THEORY
Finaty Ahsanah
Ni’matul Maulida
Rizal Ardiansyah
Syifa Khuriyatuz Zahro
Ibnu Fajar Irawan
FOUNDER
SIGMUND FREUD
 May 6, 1856 – Sigmund Freud was born in
Freyberg town, Creech Republic
 1881 – He graduated from medical faculty,
University of Vienna
 1896 – Sigmund Freud was officially
recognized
 1900 – He released ‘interpretation of dreams’
 September 23, 1939 – Freud passed away in
Hampstead house
FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS OF
PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
 Unconscious factors motivate our behavior
 Experiences or events of first 6 years of life are
determinants of later development of
personality (attention is given to those
experiences )
 Unconscious motives and conflicts are central
 Later personality problems will have its roots
on early repressed childhood conflicts
OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

• A set of philosophical of human nature

• Psychoanalysis is both an approach to

therapy and a theory of personality

• Emphasizes unconscious motivation – the

main cause of behavior lie in unconscious
mind
 VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE
 Deterministic : Our behavior is determined by irrational forces,
unconscious motivations, and biological and instinctual drives as
these evolve through key psychosexual stages in the first six years
of life
 Human as energy system Freud believe that human are motivated
by the unconscious, where the Id is found along with the
aggression and sex instincts
THEORY OF PERSONALITY
 Structural or
Topographical
 Conscious
 Preconscious
 Unconscious
 Functional or
Dynamic
Id Ego

Superego
Structural or Topographical Theory

 According to Freud, there are

three levels of consciousness:
 Conscious (small)

what you’re aware of

 Preconscious (small-medium)
This is ordinary memory.
 Unconscious (enormous)

Not directly accessible to

awareness
 Functional or Dynamic
Theory
Freud argued that the human
mind and personality are made
up of three parts:
 The id ( Biological component ):
pleasure and instant gratification.
 The ego ( Psychological Component ):
aware of reality and is in contact with the outside world
 The superego (Social Component ):
social conscience
 FREUD’S THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
 Child moves through five stages
 Oral – Infancy
 Anal – Toddlerhood
 Phallic –3 to 6 years of age
 Oedipus & Electra Complex
 Latent – 6 to 12 years of age
 Identification with same-sex parent
 Genital - Adolescence
 Satisfy mature sexual instinct
 FREUD’S PSYCHOSEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
 Emphasized the role of nature over nurture
 Believed humans are basically evil
 Believed development has qualitative
changes
 Believed development was discontinuous
 Believed development was passive
 Believed development was universal
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF FREUD’S THEORY

 Strengths
 Awareness of unconscious motivation
 Emphasized important early experience &
emotions and emotional conflicts
 Weaknesses
 Theory said to be ambiguous, internally
inconsistent, not testable, and therefore not
falsifiable
 Not supported by research
 CRITICS TO FREUD’S
PSYCHOANALYSIS
 E. Fuller Torrey – No more scientific basis
 Frank Cioffi – False claims of a sound scientific
verification of the theory
 Alice Miller – She scrutinized and rejected the validity of
Freud's drive theory
 Joel Kupfersmid – Little evidence to support the
existence of the Oedipus complex
 Noam Chomsky – Lack of a scientific basis
 Steven Pinker – Unscientific for understanding the mind
 Steven Jay Gould – Recapitulation theory
 Hans Eysenck & John F. Kihlstrom – the field as
pseudoscience
 Carl Rogers – humiliate human’s prestige
 THE TEACHER PIANO MOVIE

 The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste) is

a 2001 French-Austrian erotic thriller film
written and directed by Michael Haneke,
starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît
Magimel. The film is based on 2004
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Elfriede
Jelinek's 1983 novel of the same name`
 THE MAIN CHARACTERS

 Erika Kohut : is piano teacher in a Vienna

conservatory.
 The mother : the one who controls Erika’s life.
 Walter Klemmer : the students of Erika and
Erika’s lover.
 SYNOPSIS
 Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano
instructor at a famous music conservatory in
Vienna.
 She lives with her domineering mother.
 She loves to hurt herself in the sexual activity.
 She meets Walter Klemmer.
 She forced him to play with her rules.
 At first he refuse to accept all the Eriaka’s Rules.
But at the end he is the one who violent Erika’s
harshly..
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