In Jacqueline Rose’s article, “Paranoia and the Film System,” part of her argument is that in the film, The Birds, “the woman is both [the] cause and object of the aggressivity which drives the narrative to a point at which its resolution is coincident with her ‘catatonia’” (85). I was intrigued by the psychoanalytic term “aggressivity” because Rose constantly utilizes it throughout her article, thus I decided to look into it. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, claims that aggressivity is a mode of identification that defines the final structure of a person’s ego and it also registers the individuals that are typical of a person’s world (Woodward 74). This aggressivity happens in all the great stages of life beginning with the Oedipal stages