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When it comes to psychoanalysis, we naturally think of the famous Austrian physician Freud.
Psychoanalysis, which he founded at the end of the 19th century, was originally produced from the practice of neurosis treatment and gradually developed into a major school of modern Western psychology, known as the "second force" of Western psychology (behaviorist psychology pioneered by Watson was the first force, and humanistic psychology represented by Maslow was the third force).
Psychoanalysis is both a method of treating mental illness and a psychological theory for understanding the subconscious mind.
In today's article, I will learn about psychoanalysis from the movie "Dr. Edward".
It is said that this film is a tribute to Freud.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1. The subconscious mind is a mysterious force that affects the self</h1>
Scott Pike emphasized in his book The Road Few People Walk: "Your subconscious mind, the 'self' that you know very little, has an extremely rich connotation, and its mystery is beyond your imagination." ”
Yes, it's really hard for us to understand ourselves.
Our constant anxiety and remorse, the fact that we think is not the truth, the secrets that are suppressed in our hearts affect our moods, and the fact that we are busy all day but do not know what the future means, etc. Although these problems are subjectively deliberate and do not want to cause pain, it is important that objectively we cannot understand the mysterious forces that affect the self, that is, the subconscious.
The film "Doctor Edward" is a suspense film that explains Freud's theory of subconscious and childhood trauma.
The film mainly tells the story of the director of the mental hospital, Murchison, who is about to retire, and is taken over by the young and promising Dr. Edward, and peterson, a young and beautiful female doctor in the hospital, falls in love with him, but she finds that the person she loves in front of her is not Dr. Edward, and the real Edward's secretary comes to point out that this impostor is Edward's murderer.
In the face of the confused identity of the lover, Peterson never believed that he was the murderer, but Dean Murchison and the others thought that the "facts" were true, and more difficultly, the fake Edward also believed that he was guilty, and he did not even know who he was and what he had experienced.
Peterson was very adamant about her judgment, and she decided to help him find out the truth. Under the pursuit of the police, she took him to the home of the psychoanalytic mentor and began a series of wonderful psychoanalytic processes, and the shadow of his childhood and the truth about Dr. Edward's murder gradually surfaced, and finally the truth came out.
The fake Dr. Edward in the film, named John, has always been influenced by mysterious theories, that is, the subconscious.
The subconscious mind is a concept proposed by Freud.
He believes that behind each of our choices and actions, there is an imperceptible force that comes from the subconscious.
If the whole spiritual activity of human beings is compared to an iceberg, the consciousness that exposes the water is only the tip of the iceberg, and the huge part under the water is the main body of spiritual activity, which is the subconscious, and most of the things that are not allowed by social norms such as morality and law are hidden under the surface of the water and lie in the darkness.
It can be seen that in Freud's view, the subconscious mind is the deep realm of man's psychological structure, the basis of psychology and the internal driving force of human activity, including man's primitive impulses, various instincts, and various desires that are suppressed after birth.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2. Psychoanalytic treatment, the biggest entry point is to tap the subconscious</h1>
Peterson and the fake Dr. Edward in the film fall in love at first sight.
When the two came into contact further, Peterson discovered that John had a distinct mental illness, and that he had an inexplicable fear of "white" and "striped" objects, such as the trajectory of a fork on a napkin, Peterson's striped white nightgown, the track of a train, and the striped sheets of the mentor's house, which could instantly surprise him.
As the plot unfolds, the truth of the matter comes to the surface with the joint efforts of Peterson and his mentor.
It turned out that the fake Dr. Edward was an amnesiac patient with a strong sense of guilt.
He accidentally injured his brother during a childhood play and has always been guilty of his death; and when the real Dr. Edward slid down the hill from him during the skiing (during his service in the army, the plane crash caused a psychological disorder, and sought Doctor Edward's treatment, when Edward was treating him by skiing), he once again mistakenly believed that he had killed Dr. Edward, he pressed both experiences into the black hole in his heart, and pretended to be Dr. Edward, seemingly normal to start a new life.
This explains why John is afraid of striped white objects, because the two long trails in the ski resort have been imprinted on his deep memories.
Here's another question, why did he pretend to be Dr. Edward?
In fact, he pretended to be this matter, and he didn't know it, it was the mysterious power of his subconscious that was affecting him.
Like suppressing the fact that he had accidentally injured his brother in his childhood, he was also reluctant to touch the terrible killing experience, so when the ski marks turned into stripes on the sheets, he tried to avoid it. He mistakenly believed that he had killed Dr. Edward himself, so he disguised himself as him, so as to deny the fact of killing and avoid guilt.
Throughout the process, he is unintentional, but it seems to have a purpose, and we can understand it this way: the "conscious self" does not know the purpose of the "subconscious self", and the "subconscious self" will secretly manipulate people to make unexpected behaviors.
We see that John in the film, with the help of Peterson and his mentor, recalls the real past and the feelings brought about by it, including understanding the painful memories of John's childhood, that is, the origin of guilt; understanding the cause of his amnesia, that is, suppressing his terrible experience; knowing the real reason for his fear of white stripes, which not only cleared him of the suspicion of murder, but also cured his mental illness.
Of course, the treatment process in the film is only demonstrated very short because of the movie-watching experience, and the real-life treatment process may be a long, step-by-step psychotherapy process.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3.Dreams are the most important way to reveal the subconscious</h1> mind
Earlier, we learned that the subconscious mind, as a "mysterious person", has been influencing us, so how are these subconscious things discovered?
Dreams are one of the most important ways.
The subconscious mind is hard to detect, but dreams can provide us with some good clues.
Freud believed that dreams are the fulfillment of wishes and the reflection of the human subconscious. At the same time, he also believes that dreams have two meanings, explicit meaning and implicit meaning, explicit meaning refers to the dream spoken, and hidden meaning is the meaning behind the explicit meaning, which requires free association.
That is to say, some simple dreams do not need to be analyzed, for example, after eating salty food at night, we will wake up thirsty at night and dream of drinking water, which is just a dream of "wish fulfillment". The hidden dream is what we need to pay attention to, and through it we can discover the subconscious desires that are hidden deep in our hearts.
In the film, Peterson and his mentor are excavated through the dream that John said and the process of their dream interpretation, and only then did they dig out the final truth.
John recalls his dream, the first scene is in a casino surrounded by painted curtains, he and a bearded man playing blackjack, when the masked casino owner walks in and scolds the bearded man for cheating; the second scene is on the sloped roof of a huge building, the bearded man falls down in a ski, the casino owner hides behind the chimney, holding a wheel in his hand, and then he is chased by a pair of wings.
When Peterson and his mentor analyzed the dream, they learned that the pitched roof was a hillside and determined that it was a ski resort; the bearded man was Dr. Edward, who fell off a cliff while skiing; and the big wings that took him to escape were Peterson.
Later, Peterson decided to take John to the ski resort to stimulate memories through scene reconstruction and find the final mystery.
Sure enough, while skiing, John recalled that the slide incident when he was a child led to the accidental death of his brother, which was the source of his guilt. And this inner pain is just similar to Dr. Edward's fall off a cliff, so both things are suppressed by John in the subconscious.
Among them, the method used for dream interpretation is free association.
With regard to free association, Freud elaborated in the book "The Interpretation of Dreams", "When I ask the patient to tell me all his thoughts and thoughts about a certain subject, it will involve their dreams, and thus make me imagine that dreams can be used as a bridge between certain pathological thoughts and previous memories; and the second step evolves into the dream itself as a symptom, and can trace the source of the disease and give treatment according to the interpretation of the dream." ...... In order to achieve this, it is best to make the patient rest happily on the bed, close his eyes, and completely eliminate any inner rebuttal to erase the slightest feeling. ...... He must be absolutely fair and unbiased in all his thoughts. Once his dreams, obsessive-compulsive thoughts, or other pathologies cannot be successfully resolved, all this is due to the fact that he still allows his own criticism to hinder its confession. ”
This passage not only speaks of the method of free association, but also illustrates the important role of self-observation in solving dreams. In other words, interpreting dreams through free association requires the therapist and the patient to complete it together.
For the patient, self-observation is required, no critical ability is required, just observation, awareness. Of course, free association is not a deliberate imagination, but a focus on slowly entering the subconscious level in a state of freedom and nature.
For the therapist, all that needs to be done is to connect the relevant details of the dream and restore the reality. Because from the appearance, before analysis, it is difficult for them to see the realization of the dreamer's wishes, because "dreams need to be explained" is the characteristic of dreams, that is, dreams will be "modified".
There are mainly the following methods of dream modification:
1) Condensation, i.e. finding elements that are repeatedly reproduced in the content of the dream, thus forming new unions (collecting characters, mixing images) and generating some common code names.
2) Transposition, that is, the replacement of repressed arguments with unimportant or undeciplined ideologies, with the aim of escaping the "examination of dreams". Just like John in the film doesn't remember the person wearing the mask, that is, Dean Murchison.
3) Symbolism, that is, the transformation of abstract content into concrete images. Just like those big wings were angels, people who fled with John.
4) Retouching, that is, when the dreamer recalls the content in the dream, he reverses and disrupts the dream content, and then rearranges and summarizes it to make it more organized.
In addition, Freud, in His Introduction to Psychoanalysis, also spoke of the significance of inconspicuous transgressions, such as slips of the tongue, clerical errors, misreadings, and misauditations. We cannot take down seemingly insignificant symbols, which are also of great value, and through these signals we may be able to discover something significant.
The truth of the film's story is exposed because of a slip of the tongue by Dean Murchison.
He said he didn't know much about Edward, which meant that he had seen Him, but he had claimed that he had never met Edward before, so why was he lying?
Because of this sentence, Peterson re-looked at John's dream notes, and she found that she had missed something, who was the person wearing the mask? Finally, she understood that the casino was the hospital, and the wheel was the pistol, and the man in the mask was the dean, who wanted to keep his position and ended Dr. Edward's life with a gun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > written at the end:</h1>
Our consciousness is influenced by morals, values, and social identity, but the subconscious mind, which is the initial instinct, does not necessarily suffer from these influences, so there is a discord between the subconscious mind and the consciousness, which is why we always feel that there is a mysterious force against our consciousness.
In fact, to understand the subconscious mind is to know oneself in depth.
But we need to know that Freud's view of the subconscious is limited, and that he believes that the subconscious mind is "bad" and is always associated with darkness, disease, etc. This is not the case, for example, the "implicit learning" method of learning, its magic and effectiveness, is the hidden power of the subconscious.
In addition, regarding dream interpretation, in addition to entering our subconscious mind through analysis and helping us to better see the "truth", we ordinary people (patients need professional help to interpret dreams) can also interpret dreams for ourselves through intuition.
This intuition, the emotion in the dream, and our first thought, is very important.
First, intuition requires us to respect the feelings of the present moment and to be aware of our hearts, that is, to see the depths of our own hearts.
Second, pay attention to the dreams you often make. When these dreams change, it means that your mind is also changing.
Third, the subconscious mind is more like ourselves, and we have to follow it and take ourselves to the right place.
As Steve Jobs said, "I followed my instincts and curiosity, and came across a lot of things that have since proven priceless." ”
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