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That Obscure Object of Desire

Released in: 1977

Movie Description

A surrealistic exploration of the psychology of obsession. Two actresses play one leading female role, making this an interesting example of change blindness.

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  1. Desire
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  2. Psychoanalysis History
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  3. Down Processing Vision
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  4. Social Procedures
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  5. Sexual Attraction Evolutionary Psychology
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  6. Computational Vision
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  7. High Level Vision
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  8. Analytic Synthetic
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  9. Visual Object Recognition
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  10. Mental Representation
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