That Freud reference
During a scene in which Rose speaks to Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the Titanic, she skillfully makes a dig at his masculinity. She suggests that he read up on Freud’s research on men’s obsession with size, pointing out that the purpose of constructing a ship of such size is obviously to compensate for one’s lack of physical attractiveness.
Although humorous, this is somewhat impolite, and the timing seems a little strange. These concepts were first presented by Sigmund Freud in “The Pleasure Principle” in 1920. Did she have a close friendship with Freud?
