We often fantasize about another ideal version of ourselves. He should be healthy, confident, able to cope with all kinds of difficulties, very executive, humorous, popular, no more procrastination, no fear of social interaction, no longer living In the shadow of others. In short, the ideal self is a person who is no longer fettered by any negative emotions.
As for what is healthy, unhealthy is an unanswerable question. The trick of this question is that it can easily deceive everyone: everyone seems to vaguely distinguish between healthy and unhealthy, but they will inevitably be interfered or even deceived by the outside world, allowing us to draw wrong conclusions. For example, in contemporary times, success means that a person wearing a well-known designer’s hand-made suit drives a Lamborghini into and out of the Xishan villa. Beauty means a face with big breasts, fat buttocks and long legs. Happiness is a change from the simple reunion of family and friends. It has become a grand gathering to gain a sense of superiority through the comparison of material identities. Under the influence of the ubiquitous concept of consumerism, we have defined many unrealistic and unachievable fantasies, in which we live an "ideal" version of ourselves. As an office worker living in a busy city, we often imagine that we can afford an apartment in Wudaokou. We envy those “free” people on social networks who travel around the world on vacation without work. We want to be a good life and spiritual People who are healthy and will not encounter any difficulties again.
Until we have paid a high price for such an illusion, that is, we have lost ourselves.
Morty's sense of insecurity and low self-esteem runs through the entire series. Morty's deep self-awareness is his disappointment in himself. So he imagined Healthy Morty as a Wall Street agent in suits and leather shoes, full of self-confidence, easy to seduce girls, free from the fetters of the outside world, and boastful of Wall Street agents. This is his definition of his ideal self, which reflects his dissatisfaction with his true self. The meaning of this episode is to tell us how superficial and naive our ideal self may be.
In terms of how to subjectively define the difference between healthy and unhealthy, another character in the play interprets the other side. Jessica's girlfriend Tricia's experience in sexual love is extremely vivid. Her ideal love is penis in foreskin kind of love. She likes something more and likes to be pee on. She doesn't think such behavior is unhealthy. This is her personal behavior and we will not comment on it. The meaning of this part in this episode is to show us how different individuals can define healthy and unhealthy.
As for Rick, he is a positive character in this story. After "detox", Rick has changed from a selfish control freak to a humble and warm grandfather. He quickly realized that he had changed. He didn't want to lose that unhealthy Rick. What he did at this time was to fight against his dark personality and reach reconciliation. Freud proposed that personality constitutes the id, ego, and superego, and a complete person should be a person who achieves a balance between inner desire and individual conscience. Rick has always clearly known his composition, both intellectual and emotional, but also selfish and dark. It is Rick’s disdain for the outside world, contempt for traditional morality, and an unorthodox sense of justice. Enough to become a unique feature of Rick and Morty.
Returning to reality, we can’t become our own fantasy, we can’t become the person we envy and jealous of, we may not be able to get that million-dollar job, we may not be able to buy an apartment in Beijing, Shanghai, and we will never have beautiful legs and big breasts. , And it is impossible to transform Morty from an insecure and inferiority complex into a Wall Street manager through a “detox machine”. For us, healthy in the true sense is like Rick's internal constant struggle and keeping the self in a kind of balance. The real healthy is not the elimination of negative feelings, but the result of reconciliation between the two. And reconciliation is achieved through constant struggle.
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