The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir probes the meanings
behind the depiction of psychiatry and psychological illness in
film noir, and how these depictions contribute to an overall
understanding about the noir cycle itself. In this study, Marlisa
Santos examines the role that the popularization of psychoanalysis
in the 1940s and 1950s, beginning with the use of psychoanalytic
techniques to treat World War II soldiers, had on writers and
filmmakers of noir. This popularization had a lasting effect on
American culture, especially as ideas such as introspection and a
morally neutral universe became status quo, and thereby became
reflected in the noir series. The films analyzed in this study
reveal a distillation of such ideas, a bringing to the surface
concerns and fears regarding the contradictory, yet thrilling
nature of psychoanalysis: the ability of a 'science of the mind' to
eliminate the mysteries of the human psyche and the simultaneous
nature of this science to expose the fundamental unknowability of
the human psyche. Indeed, Santos argues that noir itself might not
have existed without the introduction of psychoanalysis into
American culture.
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