Wood separates the essay into four different parts: repression, oppression, the connection between the two, and “Other” figures that are subjected to the two as well. There are two types of repression: basic repression and surplus repression. Basic repression is necessary to what makes us human beings and have the ability to accept gratification and co-exist with others. On the other hand, surplus repression gives way for people to take their own roles in their own particular culture. Many of the societies that exist experience many variations of surplus repression. A good example of that is when society puts strong expectations and restrictions on women from the moment they are born. They are given dolls to play with from an early age,
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First, the idea that sexual energy in a member should only be within the grounds of monogamous heterosexual union to reproduce future ideal inhabitants. There is also the rule that the individuals sexuality should only be fulfilled through “non-creative and non-fulfilling labor,’ in order to reduce sexual and intellectual energy to a minimum. Next, bi-sexuality, is believed to be a “threat to the norm of sexuality,” as it disrupts the reproductive and idealistic predictions of a family. Third, female sexuality and creativity is constantly being repressed. Women are often described as passive but are denied “masculine drives such as activeness, aggression, self-assertion, organizational power, and creativity.” This is the main reason why women always feel secondary to men in …show more content…
The concept is basically viewing an outsider as someone who “cannot be recognized or accepted but must deal with.” There are clips from a few films that perfectly captures the “Other.” In “Let the Right One In,” Oskar, the 12 year old boy living in isolation who has very few friends, is constantly harassed in school by a group of bullies just because he is different. Many films reflect this next type of plot, which involves women being abused physically and emotionally by men. In “Planet Terror,” the two women are held captive and controlled by their rapists and seen as sex objects rather than human beings. To understand the bourgeois obsession with cleanliness, which reveals to just be “an outward symptom closely associated with sexual repression,” “Dead Meat’s,” Andre, a butcher, is one of the working-class people who typically does the dirty jobs who is considered the “Other.” Wood also describes ethnic groups as “Other” due to them becoming acceptable and having the capability to behave like normal people should. In “The Mission,” the priests are seen to be controlling the South American Indian tribe into acceptable people. As for alternative ideologies or political systems, “Schlinder’s List” shows 10,000 Jews being burned by the Nazi soldiers due to their ideologies are different from the Germans and that makes them the “Other.” When it comes to deviations from ideological sexual norms, bisexuality is
First, the idea that sexual energy in a member should only be within the grounds of monogamous heterosexual union to reproduce future ideal inhabitants. There is also the rule that the individuals sexuality should only be fulfilled through “non-creative and non-fulfilling labor,’ in order to reduce sexual and intellectual energy to a minimum. Next, bi-sexuality, is believed to be a “threat to the norm of sexuality,” as it disrupts the reproductive and idealistic predictions of a family. Third, female sexuality and creativity is constantly being repressed. Women are often described as passive but are denied “masculine drives such as activeness, aggression, self-assertion, organizational power, and creativity.” This is the main reason why women always feel secondary to men in …show more content…
The concept is basically viewing an outsider as someone who “cannot be recognized or accepted but must deal with.” There are clips from a few films that perfectly captures the “Other.” In “Let the Right One In,” Oskar, the 12 year old boy living in isolation who has very few friends, is constantly harassed in school by a group of bullies just because he is different. Many films reflect this next type of plot, which involves women being abused physically and emotionally by men. In “Planet Terror,” the two women are held captive and controlled by their rapists and seen as sex objects rather than human beings. To understand the bourgeois obsession with cleanliness, which reveals to just be “an outward symptom closely associated with sexual repression,” “Dead Meat’s,” Andre, a butcher, is one of the working-class people who typically does the dirty jobs who is considered the “Other.” Wood also describes ethnic groups as “Other” due to them becoming acceptable and having the capability to behave like normal people should. In “The Mission,” the priests are seen to be controlling the South American Indian tribe into acceptable people. As for alternative ideologies or political systems, “Schlinder’s List” shows 10,000 Jews being burned by the Nazi soldiers due to their ideologies are different from the Germans and that makes them the “Other.” When it comes to deviations from ideological sexual norms, bisexuality is