find love and happiness. During his adventures he also has to face and defeat the greatest evil of allthe evil within himself. Jeffrey's journey into the underworld of Lumberton may also be seen as a journey into the subconscious of the human mind, into the Freudian id. This may be supported by the scene in which the camera zooms in on the severed ear and, going down the rabbit hole, it leads us inside like we were traveling into someone's mind. This is how the journey begins and when it comes to a close we leave the underworld through Jeffrey's ear by a reversal shot of that earlier one. Accepting this interpretation we may consider the normalcy of Lumberton to be Jeffrey's superego and the underworld, and particularly Frank, to be his id surfacing and trying to take control of his ego. The censor who struggles to keep the id suppressed is Jeffrey himself who finally succeeds by killing Frank and thus killing his evil, instinctive self putting his id back where it belongs. Sandy may also be seen as a censor-like figure for she is firmly rooted in the superego Lumberton world and represents all the purity and innocence and love that is missing from the underworld. According to Antulov Sandy's role in the film is "to be the voice of reason and the only link to the 'normal' world for Jeffrey" ("Review for Blue Velvet", http://reviews.imdb/Reviews/155/15529). She, however, also embodies essential goodness, making the counterpoint to the forces of evil which are luring Jeffrey away from his secure position above the surface. Moreover, she is a source of love and as such, a possible source of deliverance. There are other Freudian elements in the film as well; most of which are connected to Frank. Lost in his perverted sexual fantasies he relates to Dorothy both as her father and as her child. In her sexual connection to Frank Dorothy may be seen to represent the Female being assaulted by all the Male figuresgetting raped by the Husband who ...
