Wesley Crusberg, (Liminality) Post # 6

In constructing my research for my final paper Dr. Redick pointed me in the direction of the concept of liminality. My paper is on The Last Samurai and the movie directly refers to liminality and how the concept of liminality affects Rite De Passage.
I do not want to give anything away from my paper so I will discuss what I talked about in a previous class. The concept of liminality was brought up to me in a previous class by Dr. Padilla. It was in the class Dial M for Myth in which myth was tied into famous Alfred Hitchcock films. Liminality was a concept used to describe Norman Bates within the movie Psycho. Now before I go on let me describe liminality. The concept of liminality is an idea that someone never completes their Rite De Passage and instead stays in an in-between state. The individual who experiences liminality is tuck and cannot move on physically, psychologically, or metaphorically.
Within the movie Psycho Norman Bates is stuck in-between being a child and an adult. He cannot move on because of his mother, who later in the film realize is him. He is a crazed lunatic and eventually gets caught because of his child like nature.
Liminality at first only referred to rituals in tribal cultures, but due to the development of the idea and the development of culture globally, liminality can refer to many different things regarding be stuck in-between. The paper I turned in tracks the concept of liminality and how it directly encounters Rite De Passage.