A look that deceives boredom Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”

Immobilized in a wheelchair following an accident, photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies (James Stewart in Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock), is bored. He begins watching his neighbours through the rear window of his apartment, and discovers that one of them has murdered his wife and gotten rid of the body. The film is analyzed as a metaphor for the integration of the personal shadow initially projected onto the other. As the subject approaches his own shadow, he becomes introverted; he can form a bond with the anima, recognizing her as his best guide. In the film, the hero’s confidence in his anima and the acceptance of her independence enables him to attain the amorous dependence he had hitherto guarded against, fearing that it would curtail his liberty.