Films

Oskar Matzerath willfully arrests his own physical development into adulthood at his third birthday in contempt of the adult life in the external social world, but he is intelligent enough to see through everything around him. Whenever he sees something which makes him upset, he expresses his feelings hitting his own drum, which was given at his third birthday by his mother. And when he is not happy, he can shatter glass with his loud voice. He also works as a narrator. He recalls the past events around his ancestors and his birth. He is a persona for the artist. "A strong ego relates to the outside world through a flexible persona; identifications with a specific persona (doctor, scholar, artist, etc.) inhibits psychological development." (Mario Jacoby, The Analytic Encounter (Canad 1984) p. 118).