ABSTRACT
Pulp Fiction, written mainly by its director Quentin Tarantino, was widely acclaimed, receiving the Palme d'Or for best picture at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and a 1995 Academy Award for best screenplay. Tarantino's films being so autobiographical, it is essential to be aware of his background to fully appreciate the latent and manifest content of Pulp Fiction. Given the turmoil of Tarantino's childhood, with its many separations, losses, and other repetitive traumas, it is understandable why the comprehension of time was such a formidable obstacle for him. The psychoanalytic concept of sublimation, where both conflicted aggressive and libidinal drives are unconsciously neutralized or transformed through the creative process as a means of achieving mastery, would apply to Tarantino and his work, not least Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction of his close associates divulged: "If Quentin didn't make it in the film business, it's very likely he'd have ended up a serial killer".
