I found the psychosexual themes of both Buñuel films we watched this week rather perplexing. On one hand, traditional directors will try to make you feel empathetic towards their protagonists. Even if the character does unfavorable things, we are meant to empathize with them, vis-à-vis them being the focal point of our narration. However, in both An Andalusian Dog and L’Age d’Or, our main characters were seen committing unforgivable acts of sexual debauchery and deviancy. Occasionally, even sexual violence against another person occurs. A completely unorthodox way of conducting one’s protagonist. In the former film, the androgynous man riding the bicycle is fervently comforted upon falling from the bike and looked after with motherly care. In the lecture, the professor entailed that both Dali and Buñuel had been studying Freud before making the film. This information is pertinent because of what the androgyne then does. After being nursed back to health and given a more masculine pair of clothes, the androgyne begins to sexually pursue the woman he once viewed as a motherly figure, fondling her breasts, buttocks, and chasing after her with a menacing gaze as she tries to escape him.  This sequence is an almost direct echo of how Freud says that a man’s mother is his first desire. A truly disturbing suggestion that the audience hates to see put on the screen.