Desire Theme in the Movie Lolita

DOI

10.2991/icesame-17.2017.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Lolita; Vladimir Nabokov; desire theme; intellectuals; Mental anxiety

Abstract

The Movie Lolita (1953) is a desire film which is adapted from the contemporary American writer Vladimir Nabokov 's (1899-1977) namesake novel. The novel tells a story of a European immigrant intellectual Humbert's deformed love to Lolita,a sexy girl of fourteen years old. Since its release, the movie caused a stir in the world with mixed reviews of both positive and negative viewpoints. Based on Sigmund Freud, Karl J.Jung, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze's desire theory, this article analyzed the desire theme in the novel, gave an anatomy of the anxiety and confusion of the modern intellectual , and revealed the implicit sociological topic in the novel.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yizhou He
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