Jeeves' Diary

If I could give an award of 'evil archetype' individuality, it could have been given to Vladimir Harkonnen in Lynch's 'Dune' version.

Psychologically, such an ideal villain having 2 sides of the coin: each of them doesn't seem to know about existence of other. Such a division helps him/her not to be aware of other ego living inside and, due to this, prevents further inward splitting leading to being totally insane and unpredictable in one's action – as under 'sanity' we mean the wholeness of mentality and the predictability in deeds.

Lynch's Harkonnen ( laying aside surrealistic interpretation of the book) seems sane and determined. But the facet between his sanity and insanity looks like thin. Two sides of his nature as if living their own lives, and cross only when it touches vital moments of the environment he lives. That's why , IMHO, such a kind of behavior while doing something may be charged unlike, say, the type of Di Caprio's personage in 'Shutter Island ' in which the dissociation seen in full.

According to Freud, an ideal power in order to keep in submission people, should be both loved and hated. This is an urgent condition to propagate resident devils.

Nothing looks more disgusting as being sadistic, cruel, vile, coward and, at the same time, sensitive, sentimental and hedonistic - first 'rough' attributes of nature might have been logically contradicted two 'delicate' second. As they co-exist kind of two symbiosis-like substances, it ultimately creates the monster that – exactly due such a surrealistic improbability – strikes with awe and keeps in submission.