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Dadoun considers Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis (1926), and its relation to the values and concepts of National Socialism. The purpose of his article is to illustrate the necessity and pertinence of psychoanalytic concepts for the study of the film. Lang's film is a futuristic tale of the city, Metropolis, where the masters live in skyscrapers, with workers in the lower depths of the city enslaved to the rigors of mechanical productivity upon which the city depends. One of the psychological themes of the film is splitting, as illustrated both in the division of the city into upper and lower and in the division of the heroine, Maria,