The older generation often says things like this to the younger generation, your current conditions are much stronger than we were then, what are you unhappy about?
Unfortunately, we are indeed unhappy. In the past few decades, people's unhappiness often stemmed from physical pain, because they were not happy because they did not have enough to eat, clothe and warmth. But at present, after the problem of food and clothing has been basically solved, another sharp contradiction has emerged - the emptiness and torture of the spiritual world.
Spiritual suffering has become the greatest source of modern people's unhappiness.
Physical torture or mental collapse, which is more unhappy? It's probably a meaningless question, like there are two pieces of, don't we have to stink more than anyone else?
There is no doubt that in the present, the collapse of the spiritual level is more prominent than the physical pain, so the mental illness of modern people is more and more common.
This book "I Have a Little Man in My Heart" records the experience of the painter Worm's mental breakdown. Worm began to undergo psychoanalysis because of anxiety and depressive symptoms, and in the process, she recorded her psychoanalytic diary in detail, and also began a new way of painting to analyze herself and know herself.
The book consists of two parts, a psychoanalytic diary and a painting, and worms record the entire process of their mental breakdown and reconstruction.
It should be stated in advance that Worm has already said in the book that the method of psychoanalysis does not apply to everyone. That said, this book doesn't necessarily cure our mental anxiety and depression.
But at the very least, it provides a way, a way to get out of anxiety and heal a mental breakdown. Painter worms come out of depression and anxiety through painting, but we don't have to learn to paint, we need to take this opportunity to find a way that suits us, find the little person in our hearts, and then walk it out of the labyrinth of spiritual crisis.
In the book, Worm repeatedly emphasizes that psychoanalysis, for her, is a process of constantly discovering herself.
Discover yourself, which is the core of this book.
We often think of ourselves as the one who knows us best. But we are in a time when we are most likely to get lost, we can see countless things, we can get countless things, but we don't know more and more what we really want. This may be summed up by the popular word "original intention".
It's always easy to forget our original intentions and fall into a situation of loss and self-doubt.
In the process of psychoanalysis, Worm gradually discovered this and also understood the meaning of her paintings.
The author of this book, Worm Worm, was originally a painter, but the paintings in this book are completely different from any of her previous works. So when we look at the paintings in the book in isolation, it's often hard to figure out what she's saying.
This may not be a problem with our ability to understand and appreciate. The worm said it himself, and the meaning of painting is not to analyze it. The process of painting ultimately points to freedom.
With the help of painting, insects express themselves, to discover how free can a person's mind be, and what kind of self can be created?
This process is the process of discovering oneself and discovering the little person in one's heart. The book says that years-long psychoanalysis is like breaking a person up and rebuilding. Even through the words and paintings of true feelings, it is difficult for us to empathize with the author, but we can probably understand that this is not an easy process.
But it is never easy to find yourself, out of the spiritual rush.
As mentioned above, "I Have a Little Man in My Heart" is a book full of true feelings, and the author Worm shows the whole process of her psychoanalysis in the book.
The psychoanalytic records we usually see are often the records of analysts, and this book is a record of the visitor's point of view. This visitor-oriented record is not only unique, but it resonates with us even more.
Depression and anxiety are probably the most pervasive mental crises that plague modern people. In the face of depression and anxiety, our nerves are extremely fragile, and a little wind and grass can trigger a collapse, and this collapse is often internal and incomprehensible to others. It is the little people in our hearts who are crying out for help.
Through her way, the worm takes the little person in her heart out of the labyrinth, a long and difficult trek, but finally meets willow dark flowers.