Psycho Themes

There are two criminals in Psycho: Marion Crane, who steals a large sum of money, and Norman Bates, who's a mass murderer. Obviously, these aren't equal crimes. Norman Bates is a sicko, and Marion...

In Psycho, family means mother. And it also means Freud. Sigmund Freud believed that little boys have a sexual attraction to their mothers, and therefore resent their fathers—the famous Oedipus C...

Madness in Psycho is mainly about gender confusion. Norman is mad because his sexual desire, his mother love, and his jealousy have all gotten tangled up together until he doesn't know whether he's...

Sex freaks Norman out; whenever he thinks about sex, he feels so guilty he runs off and murders someone. Sex freaks Marion out, too; in order to stop having illicit sex, she steals a huge amount of...