Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz


The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of returning
home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz is
spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells
Aunt Em that "all I kept saying to everybody was ‘I want to go home.'" This
fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One
reason was that due to the depression, many people were forced away from their
homes and into cities. Another reason was that America was on the verge of
entering into another war, WWII, and the threat of having to send troops away
from home was very real. And, as stated by Paul Nathanson in Over the Rainbow
(156), "going home is fundamentally linked, for many Americans, with growing
up." With this in mind, it seems a good way of evaluating The Wizard of Oz is
by Dorothy's process of growing up, her maturation. Also, since Dorothy's
adventure to Oz is......

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