Because Elisa Esposito moves from a position of silent victimization to one of agency, her development can be illuminated through an analogy to Bertha Pappenheim, the first patient of psychoanalysis. ...the connection of Roh's coinage of the term with current literary criticism has been questioned by recent scholars. More broadly, the viewer who is old enough to remember 1962 will recognize the clothing, the hairstyles, the makeup, the period-appropriate props, the advertising billboards on the highway, the cars-most strikingly, the brand-new teal-colored Cadillac Strickland buys-and even the references to television shows such as Bonanza. A character in The Shape of Water mentions missiles being sent into Cuba, and during Giles's abduction of the creature from the laboratory, we hear the voice-over of an actual broadcast from President John F. Kennedy, with a warning about the Russian threat and a plea to Khrushchev. ...the future," that watchword of the decade, aimed as it was at the moon, is invoked again and again: