Continue to watch "April Is Your Lie" this year, because I didn't finish watching it in April last year. I am often afraid of such works, because I am immersed uncontrollably, and after I am immersed, I am confused and overwhelmed because I cannot explain my feelings. Now, I want to try to use the concept of object a to explain "Four Lies", just talk about it and have a good time.
Object a, the existence that cannot exist, the real desire that can never be touched, the perfect thing that satisfies our absolute needs. Object a can be a virtual continuation of the image of the mother as a child, a virtual imagination that we want to return to and get full satisfaction under the care of a mother after we realize that a real mother cannot meet all needs. Object a can also be a second continuation of the image of the father, when we realize that the father's arms are no longer as strong as before, and we long to return to the protected and shrouded safe situation. Object a can never be touched, which is doomed to us all to accept this reality, to accept the tears and weakness of relatives who once brought us satisfaction, and to accept the greed, arrogance and unachievability of current desires.
Spoiler alert below! !
As the death of the female protagonist with a known fate, after restarting the male protagonist's recollection and facing up to the image of her mother, she will inevitably leave like her mother. We use the object a to symbolize the male protagonist's mother. The similarity lies in the unknowability of the image left in the male protagonist's mind by the mother's early death. When the male protagonist was young, on the one hand, the mother, as the subject of the gaze, regulates the male protagonist's behavior and life, which is reflected in the image of a control freak in the first twelve episodes; on the other hand, the mother symbolizes protection, guidance and satisfaction of needs , which is reflected in the perfection, reconstruction and return to softness of the mother's image after the twelfth episode. We observed the plot gap buried in the early writings: that is, in the recollections of the male protagonist in the first twelve episodes, he was forced to obey his mother's norms, and psychologically wanted to exchange his mother's attention, love and guarantee of physical health. Questions will be raised: if the mother acts unilaterally as the suppressor and controller, then the concept of love will not be formed in the psychological sense, and the male protagonist's psychology of "returning to mother's love" will not exist and continue. This means that the mother image in the first twelve episodes is naturally imperfect and does not conform to the true perception of the young male protagonist, but a self-protection mechanism formed after the mother's death, that is, fleeing from the object of desire, fleeing from the unreachable object a, denying The object of the action "return to love" exists.
So what does the appearance of the heroine mean? April's first lie was that the heroine met the male protagonist in order to get in touch with the second man, but the actual situation was that the heroine was coming for the male protagonist, but as the heroine who would eventually die of illness, she assumed the symbolic object in the anime a of the second entity. The heroine and the mother also left due to illness, which has become an impossible reality, but the role of the heroine has achieved the continuation and restart of the mother's image and the hero's final face to the mother. The appearance of the female protagonist makes the male protagonist's "for him" mentality re-emergence. "For him" is for whom the piano sings, and it is implemented as the dark line of the anime. The formation of the "for him" psychology is based on the existence of the staring relationship, the mother is watching, the mother is concerned, the mother is throwing expectations, and so on. There is a turning point in the last twelve episodes of the anime. The female protagonist is hospitalized due to illness, and the entity gradually withdraws from the position of the gazer. At the same time, the male protagonist begins to face the image of his mother again, realizes the existence of maternal love, and as a core element, it is rooted in his childhood. Under the psychology of "for him (mother)" and "in exchange for mother's love". The self-protection mechanism is unraveled here, the trauma of the past is confronted during this period, and history begins to be reduced to an object of acceptance rather than escape.
Finally, it is the inevitable disappearance of object a. The mother symbolizes the first entity of object a, and the heroine Kaoru Miyanoun symbolizes the second, but the only tenable resemblance to this analogy is that the mother and the heroine are untouchable, dying, and what they bring. Peace of mind, comfort and satisfaction. Next, I should start explaining the relationship between the second female lead and the male lead, but I only saw episode 15 last night, so I should wait to see if you are interested in writing it.
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