A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Movie "Dr. Edward"

Kelli 2022-04-23 07:02:32

The old movies from decades ago are also not outdated now. A female psychiatrist saved her lover through her unremitting efforts. To love a person, you must study hard, which shows the importance of psychoanalysis in life.

The conscious and unconscious

The fake Edward is actually John pretending to be Edward's mental patient. The reason why John pretended to be Edward and went to the mental hospital was because in John's subconscious he believed that he was Dr. Edward.

When John was a child, he accidentally bumped his younger brother into the sharp railing under the slide when he was sliding down the slide, resulting in the death of his younger brother. This bad memory has always been hidden deep in John's memory. During psychotherapy, Dr. Edward invited John to go skiing together. During the skiing, he did not know why Edward fell into the cliff after a "bang" in front of John. Edward's accidental fall from the cliff reminded John of his childhood "crime" and made him Mistaking him for the murderer who caused Edward to fall off the cliff, he took the initiative to think of himself as Edward, and there was no murderer ever since. Consciousness is the psychological reaction formed by the psychological perception system in the moment when the internal and external stimuli are perceived in time. The unconscious is the desire impulse formed by various instincts in the bottom of the mind. Freud believed that the unconscious determines the consciousness. The unconscious is the desire and impulse formed by various instincts at the bottom of the mind. Part of the unconscious is the forgotten self-unconsciousness, which is easily exposed by external stimuli. The bad childhood memories are always hidden in John's psychological depths. The emergence of his younger brother's accident and Edward's fall from a cliff have deeply strengthened his guilt.

Looking back at the plot in the movie, when John came to the mental hospital to have dinner with Peterson in place of Edward, Peterson used a knife and fork to draw an irregular curve on the tablecloth to introduce John to the swimming pool in the courtyard. John was very upset and expressed It was very irritating, which surprised the people at the table. Later, when John and Peterson fell in love and hugged together, he saw the irregular lines of her clothes produce strong irritation and headache. Peterson asked when he found John's identity abnormal. Who is he, John replied: "My memory is like a bottomless abyss, like looking in a mirror and not getting anything, keeping some illusions but not remembering anything, even forgetting the name. "After he was revealed that he was not Edward, he thought of himself as JB.

During the police pursuit, Peterson helped John to the house of his mentor, Professor Alex. On the train, the memory of John's burnt hand was partially awakened by communicating with Peterson, who had experienced war and suffered Overwound, possible Air Force.

2. Interpretation of dreams

Freud believed that the unconscious and the id do not appear automatically, but appear in a deformed form in human dreams. The id is a hereditary primitive psychological structure, it is full of strong impulses of instinct and desire, it follows the principle of pleasure and only seeks to satisfy instinctual desires.

The essence of dreams is the satisfaction of repressed wishes disguised. Dreams are divided into manifest dreams and hidden dreams. Hidden dreams are the truth and manifest dreams are appearances, and interpretation of dreams is to dig out the truth by analyzing appearances.

John and Peterson then went to their tutor, Professor Alex, and through the analysis of John's dreams, they concluded that John was innocent. There was a little discrepancy in the middle. John saw the white and black in the bathroom during the shaving process. Trapped into unconscious action, he nearly hurt Peterson and Alex, but Alex calmed him down.

John's dream was: "In a casino, with no walls, and some curtains with lots of eyes printed on them, there was a man walking around with scissors and cutting the curtains in half, and then one looked a bit like Peterson. The woman came over and kissed everyone in the casino and walked up to me and I was sitting there playing cards against a guy with a beard and I turned out sevens of clubs and he said it was equal to blackjack and he won but when he turned over his cards and it was blank, the casino owner came up and said he was cheating and kicked him out."

"On the edge of the sloping roof of a tall building, I looked from a distance and saw him slowly turning down, wearing skateboard shoes, and then I saw the casino owner wearing a mask, hiding on the chimney, with a deformed one in his hand. My little wheel was thrown on the roof, and suddenly I was running, and a pair of huge wings was chasing me in the sky." Peterson found out that the reason for John's headache was that white was snow, Alex analyzed the symbol of things in his dream, the sloping roof could be a snow slope, and finally reminded John of the name of the slope, and found the forgotten ones in skiing. He realized that he was not the murderer and found Edward's body. He thought it would clear John's criminal facts, but the police still took John away because a gunshot wound was found on Edward's body, and the plot was reversed.

3. The final chapter

When Peterson was about to give up and go back with his mentor, Professor Alex, the director of the hospital, Dr. Mo Qingsen, showed his fault. He said that he knew a little about Dr. Edward and woke Peterson up.

Peterson and Mo Qingsen's analysis of John's dream continues: the beard is Edward, the seven of plum blossoms means club, the casino owner is Dr. Mo Qingsen, the wheel is a revolver, and the hospital director Mo Qingsen was introduced at the beginning of the film. The doctor has just returned from vacation, loves gambling games, and runs a casino in Narilla. The beginning and the end confirm each other, and the truth of the dream is finally solved.

Dr. Mo Qingsen committed suicide with a gun, while Peterson saved John and held hands successfully.

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Extended Reading

Spellbound quotes

  • Dr. Fleurot: It's rather like embracing a textbook.

    Constance Petersen: But why do you do it, then?

    Dr. Fleurot: Because you're not a textbook.

  • Dr. Murchison: The old must make way for the new, especially when the old is suspected of senility.