Psychoanalytic Perspective on Compulsive Repetitive Behaviour Related to Preverbal Trauma: based on the Example of the Film "The Aviator"

The inclusion of compulsive repetition in the second theory of drives in the form of the death drive was fundamental to the evolution of Freud's thought. This study suggests that resistance and compulsive repetition are related. Repetition opens the possibility for its research and further processing, including processing in a large social group by means of cultural communication with the viewer through cinematography. Cinematography and a particular film is a symbolic object created through the representation of various psychic experiences, including traumatic ones, which forms a transitional space and which in turn possesses the properties of reversibility. This same transitional symbolic space can be perceived as a place of "meeting" with an imaginary Other. The aim of our work was to determine the meaning and causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder by understanding and considering that action takes the place of memory. On the one hand, repetition is the failure of keeping something in memory by mental means, on the other hand, action shows something that has no words but has meaning. The retrieval of meaning allows the person with obsessional neurosis to re-appropriate that meaning, leading to recollection and elaboration. In our work we have reviewed the theoretical concepts of the definition of preverbal trauma, early trauma and the clinic of posttraumatic disorder, the theoretical concepts of obsessive-compulsive neurosis, and compulsive repetition. In the empirical part, we analysed the real biography of Howard Hughes from a psychoanalytic point of view; investigated the director's view as the view of the 'other' on the biography of Howard Hughes and found a correlation between the traumatic relationship between his mother and Howard, which formed obsessive compulsive neurosis.