Agents of Fracturing Personality: A Psychoanalytical reading based on Schizophrenia on the movie Black Swan

Abstract

This project focuses on the movie Black Swan, a new psycho drama by Darren Arinofsky.Black Swan presents astory that centered around a young potential ballerina Nina Sayers’s mental and emotional turmoil in the competitive world of a professional ballet and her personal life.This study analyses the signs and symptoms of psychological break down such ashallucination, paranoid delusion and disorganized thinking. And the potentiality of psychological breaks down getting worse contingent on different factors like environment or genetic. Agents of fracturing personality: a Psychoanalytical reading based on schizophreniais one of the relevant tools and avantage point from where this movie Black Swancould be approached. Here we can draw link between symptoms of schizophrenia with what makes peoples us ceptible to psychotic episode and why people are plunge into psychotic break down. And when people undergo the increasing experience of psychosisthelines between reality and fantasy blur. This is what we experience in this movie through centralcharacter Nina. Becauseofvarious circumstances which operate as vehicle pushes her in topsychotic episode.