Twilight zone talking tina2/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Until the end of the episode, the father is the only one who hears Talky Tina say odd and threatening things like, “My name is Talky Tina and I am going to kill you.” Eventually, in the last shot of the episode, the mother hears, “My name is Talky Tina and you had better be nice to me.” This, it seems, is a warning, perhaps since she has allowed this abuse to happen to the little girl. The doll seems to be a murderous manifestation of the little girl’s apparent and complex emotions and psychological consequence that may be embedded in the subconscious of the guilty father. ![]() The father is constantly expressing his anger toward the child, his wife, and then the doll as a result of his obsessive inadequacies. Christie is Annabelle’s daughter from a previous relationship, the dissolution of which is never discussed. The stepfather, mentioning several times that he is not the father of the little girl, Christie, is experiencing major obsessive feelings that he and his wife, Annabelle are unable to have children of their own. In “The Living Doll” the child is attached to her new doll, Talky Tina, a doll bought without the permission, and to the dismay of, her overbearing stepfather. This Twilight Zone episode is an artful way to illustrate Kleinian notions of play. Klein had her own ideas independent of Freud’s, ideas freshened by her diverse experiences, her female perspective, and also her work in using play in the therapy of children. On the surface, this is a strange and creepy tale that is fun to watch in an autumnal midnight, but it possesses psychological complexities that can be delved into and should be delved into to fully understand the power of a little girl’s pain to invoke the intense action of a deadly doll.īritish psychologist of the 1930s and 1940s, Melanie Klein, was a woman who often disagreed with Freud, but always considered herself a purveyor of his ideas. The episode first aired on Novemand starred Telly Savalas as the controlling, angry stepfather who, intentionally or not, terrorized his young stepdaughter out of his own pain in not being able to have a child with her mother. I recently watched the Twilight Zone episode, “The Living Doll,” starring Talky Tina, a murderous doll who is representative of a living little girl’s emotional frustration and pain. ![]()
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