In the film, Derrida, he states that love is the most important thing in personal lives. But that raises the questions about what exactly love is. Is it the who or the what? Psychoanalytic criticism is "a form of therapy which aims to cure mental disorders 'by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind'", specifically how the mind, the instincts and sexuality work.
Derrida's ideas and the ideas of psychoanalytic criticism merge at the idea of sexuality. When Derrida says that this is the most important thing, to define a person, to really get to know a person is through their love and sexuality, it relates with psychoanalytic perspective in that sexuality is innate and it is what drives humans through the libido. Freud also agrees with this saying that this innate sexuality is repressed in humans and that it comes out through the Oedipus Complex, projection and dream work.
Through each of these, the repressed desires shine through to show the unconscious of the person and their true feelings.
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