Download This PaperDesire, Narcissism and Crisis in Citizen Kane
Bangladesh Film Archive Journal, 2019
7 Pages Posted: 6 May 2020 Last revised: 1 Nov 2025
Date Written: June 30, 2019
Abstract
This is a critical review of the cinema Citizen Kane (1941) directed by Orson Welles. The review seeks to understand the inner psychic drivers which lead human throughout the life, through the case of Charles Foster Kane and argues that the most primitive desire developed Kane's character in a narcissistic way which led him to fall in different types of crises. The review employs psychoanalysis as an approach to establish the argument.
Keywords: Desire, Narcissism, Crisis, Ego, Psyche, Citizen Kane
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Kareem, Saiyeed Shahjada Al, Desire, Narcissism and Crisis in Citizen Kane (June 30, 2019). Bangladesh Film Archive Journal, 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3573581
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