superego questioning

Milton 2022-04-22 07:01:08

We called out to God in the wilderness and got no response, but we cried out desperately. When you are alive, you call on God, and when you are about to die, you fantasize about the god of death, hoping to question God through the god of death. If God is the answer, death is like a red cross, a kind of verdict, God's spokesman for death. But he is not God after all, not the answer. People are familiar with death but completely unfamiliar with God. Whether it is living happily or suffering, only human beings respond, and the wilderness is their own echo.

People have to split into a taller image and then talk to themselves. This seemingly schizophrenic behavior, according to the psychoanalyst Freud, is the "superego", a god played by himself. Bergman is playing God, the knights of "The Seventh Seal" are playing God, the socially recognized "God" - the church, is playing God, a thousand people have a thousand gods, but I am afraid they will always be in their hearts. Just ask.

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Extended Reading
  • Rudy 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    In the early days, Bergman always inexplicably gave it a little bit of life at the end when he was almost torturing belief to death. This may explain the general [seventh seal] of heaven. The indecision at the end. Since the devil's woman can only see empty fear in her eyes, why did the film put a Christian narrative on it, and let Joseph and Mary give birth to the baby? Fortunately, this Holy Infant is undoubtedly the son of mankind.

  • Trudie 2022-03-24 09:01:36

    When the supernatural God of solace is disenchanted, in the face of disaster and nothingness, choose worldly family and social pleasures as an alternative for the time being. Bergman is also suffering. Three Clowns = Holy Family.

The Seventh Seal quotes

  • Antonius Block: From our darkness, we call out to Thee, Lord. Have mercy on us because we are small and frightened and ignorant.

    Jöns: [bitterly] In the darkness where you are supposed to be, where all of us probably are... In the darkness you will find no one to listen to your cries or be touched by your sufferings. Wash your tears and mirror yourself in your indifference.

    Antonius Block: God, You who are somewhere, who must be somewhere, have mercy upon us.

    Jöns: I could have given you an herb to purge you of your worries about eternity. Now it seems to be too late. But in any case, feel the immense triumph of this last minute when you can still roll your eyes and move your toes.

    Karin, Block's Wife: Quiet, quiet.

    Jöns: I shall be silent, but under protest.

  • Witch: Look into my eyes.

    [the knight meets her gaze. They stare at each other for a long time]

    Witch: What do you see? Do you see him?

    Antonius Block: I see fear in your eyes, an empty, numb fear. But nothing else.

    Witch: No one, nothing, no one?

    Antonius Block: [shakes his head] No.

    Witch: Can't you see him behind your back?

    Antonius Block: [turns around] No, there is no one there.