Dissociative Identity Disorder In Hitchcock's Film Psycho

The scary movie created by Alfred Hitchcock stars a bizarre man with dissociative identity disorder named Norman Bates. Norman decides to get rid of his possessive mother, but ‘spare’ the mother's corpse and mummifies it. The corpse of the mother gives him the illusion that she is still alive, causing him to continue communicating with his ‘mother’ even when she is dead. Another way to manage the fact that his mother is dead is to completely take over her persona. That is where the split personality disorder comes in. In Hitchcock’s film ‘Psycho’, Norman Bates, who is the film's antagonist, can be characterized as being bizarre, unstable, and protective.

One bizarre activity that Norman takes part in is dressing up as his
Norman stated “She might have fooled me, but she hasn’t fooled my mother”. He is stating that he’s a fool for sexy nude women, but the ‘mother’ is most certainly not. The ‘mother’ hates women who threaten her little boys’ innocence. When Norman regains his consciousness,then he hides all evidence of the ‘murderer’. After the ‘mother’ killed Marion, Norman goes through hell making sure that there are no signs leading to the ‘mother’. Thus, he puts Marion's body into a car and drives the car into a lake. He then slowly watches the body sink deep into the swamp. Norman believes that the ‘mother’ just went buck wild and got jealous of Norman’s admiration towards women. Nonetheless, his intentions are to protect and hide the wrongdoings of his ‘mother’ under any circumstances.

Norman Bates turns out to be an innocent lonely hotel manager, simply stuffing dead animals for company. As well as keeping the mother’s corpse as company so he can hide the thought of his terrible actions and loneliness. Norman dresses up as the mother to escape the guilt of him murdering her. His is unstable although is not aware of it. Norman is not Psycho. He is just mentally