Psycho is anti-classist in the sense that it has no has no happy ending as demanded by Hollywood in the 1950s. Hitchcock in his own authoritative way gives us deliberately no happy ending that is without showing us the departure of Sam and Lila together as dawn breaks. Instead we are left staring into Norman’s mad smile or rather his Mother’s mad smile as the doctor’s words are the only jargon. When Truffaut asked whether the old rules namely that of an appealing main character and a happy ending still valid, Hitchcock answered “No”. “The public has developed. There’s no more need for the final kiss” (335-336). Through the film Hitchcock points out the failure of psychoanalysis as a science and as a therapeutic culture it is mocked at.
