A myth was born from a tragic death. They talked about her as much as they could, especially since in Marilyn’s day, the media had not invaded the privacy of Hollywood personalities as they do today.
Famous for its appearance at a time when women who undressed easily and those who appeared on the big screen in general did not coincide, she appeared in Hollywood studios to escape the life of a worker she worked on, because she was clear that her vocation was to be an actress and model.
- With a past marked by sexual abuse suffered during adolescence and at the same time with a genetic history of mental disorders -both maternal grandparents and her own mother-.
- Marilyn Monroe’s life has shown an ideal psychological framework for the development of all kinds of emotional disorders.
One of the most interesting features of her adult personality, especially in her later years, was her desire to be surrounded by intelligent and artistically educated people, authorities she recognized as the father figures she had never had before.
Among these personalities, it is worth mentioning the playwright Arthur Miller for the fact that he was the person who spent the most time with him and who influenced him to start writing poetry and reading novels.
While there is information about your culture and intellectual level, disseminated through images such as photography that interests you a lot in the novel?Ulysses? By James Joyce, Arthur Miller later claimed that he had never seen her finish a book.
Of course, you can’t ignore his intelligence, let alone now that the theory of multiple intelligences has demonstrated the existence of different types of intelligence.
As she delved into her memories, the relationships of the people who knew her, biographies of all kinds, and studies by students and psychologists, mainly by Marilyn’s psychiatrist Ralph Greeson, the actress’ psychological landscape began to crumble.
Today, she is known to have a histrionic personality disorder (HPH), an emotional disorder whose characteristics correspond to the style of seductive Marilyn.
This disorder is characterized by excessive concern about physical appearance, excessive sensitivity to cope with disapproval and exuberance in its sexual manifestations.
Symptoms appear to the point where the person is unable to have a conversation with a person of the opposite sex without the role of predator-prey and low tolerance to frustration.
An unhealthy need to see his desires constantly satisfied, whatever means should be used for his purposes, subsequently causing depression and anxiety that what he achieved (to be desired by his physical appearance) did not correspond to what he desired of himself (to be desired by his personality).
This state would improve in the 1950s when her bankruptcy marriage to Arthur Miller revealed the reality of a woman who used promiscuity to escape herself, to be admired and to earn the respect she did not have. would not come without attracting attention. , using an arsenal that went against his own values.
From the beginning I wanted to draw attention to be taken seriously and, no doubt, that’s why she used her appearance, leading great educated men to stand at their feet.
However, when she realized that her appearance made her not seen as Norma Jean Mortenson, but as the sexual myth that was Marilyn Monroe, she resorted to new conquests and infidelities to fill a void that would only end with an overdose of barbiturates.
Interestingly, she always wanted to be remembered as a great actress, but never achieved this feat, although she gained some recognition in her later years for her work.
His most important legacy was a stereotype, a “social cliché,” which has endured for decades and from which we have not yet freed ourselves.
The image of blonde and vertigo that managed to be attributed to him will never do him justice, but of course, much less the image of a gifted man who currently wants to attribute to him.
Marilyn Monroe was a woman who suffered from severe emotional needs and had little resources to escape her ghosts from the past.
She died early, after being a full-time actress who lived to be the center of attention and eyes of others, showing off her best smile and accepting the rules of the game.
All this as Norma Jean Mortenson, who in turn was not allowed – and was not allowed – to mature emotionally, dreamed that the curtain would fall once and for all and start life.
Image courtesy of Ismail Mia.