This paper analyzed by psychoanalytic criticism, on which was directed by Volker Schlondorf who is a pioneer of New German Cinema in 1979; its original novel, The Tin Drum was written by Gunter Wilhelm Grass. We can see the personal psychological conflict which shows the relationship between mother and child, father and son, or husband and wife through the psychoanalysis about both a hero, Oscar and a heroine, Agnes. The conflict between two men symbolically shows the territorial, political dispute which was caused by the fight to possess Danzig between Poland and Germany; Oscar's womb-envy complex and Oedipus complex, and Agnes' anorexia, bulimia and suicide are presented as these conflicts in the story. Based on experiences of his, Grass sardonically and pessimistically described the history of Danzig and the criticism against Nazism through both Oscar, a strange character, who was stuck in his three and the Germans around him.
We can see the personal psychological conflict which shows the relationship between mother and child, father and son, or husband and wife through the psychoanalysis about both a hero, Oscar and a heroine, Agnes. The conflict between two men symbolically shows the territorial, political dispute which was caused by the fight to possess Danzig between Poland and Germany; Oscar's womb-envy complex and Oedipus complex, and Agnes' anorexia, bulimia and suicide are presented as these conflicts in the story.
Based on experiences of his, Grass sardonically and pessimistically described the history of Danzig and the criticism against Nazism through both Oscar, a strange character, who was stuck in his three and the Germans around him.