Post an old article--"Talking about Psychoanalysis from a Film"

Keegan 2022-05-12 14:06:08

The production in 2003 was replayed on TV. « Confidences trop intimes », according to the English name « Intimate Strangers » translated into "intimate strangers" or "intimate strangers". « Confidences trop intimes » literally translates as "too many secrets to talk about", which is probably not "commercially attractive" enough.

It is about a mysterious woman who made a special trip from the Swiss-Turkish border to Paris to meet a psychoanalyst, but she did not enter the wrong door. She confided her marriage and sexual secrets to a tax consultant. The old-fashioned consultant couldn't react at first, and then it was impossible not to be attracted by the topic, and the stagnant life was slightly turbulent, so he made a mistake and did not point it out, and continued such a meeting and conversation. I won't go into details, lest those who haven't seen it lose their appetite. The Chinese version of the story synopsis found on the Internet is full of errors and omissions.

Mr. Tax is played by Fabrice Luchini, an actor with exceptionally profound skills. The part where he dances to the music in front of the mirror at home in the film is very brilliant. Men dancing alone are always extra sexy. Another paragraph that comes to mind, in "The Barber's Lover", He Shifu (Jean Rochefort, the leading actor) dances in front of his lover, strange but supple and natural, fascinating, it is the best.

With such a relationship, I turned around and was surprised that it turned out to be the same director! Patrice Leconte, no wonder. "The Barber's Lover" was released in 1990. In "The True Story of Ah Fei", which came out in about 1990 or 1991, there is also a scene where Brother Rong dances alone in front of the mirror. I don't know if he learned it. In any case, Brother Rong's twist can be imagined.

Speaking of psychoanalysis, in this film, you probably need to know how the French psychoanalysts work in order to appreciate the most wonderful depths.

French social culture attaches great importance to individual mental health. Not only the infant psychoanalysts mentioned above, but also for every accident, a psychoanalyst is present to relieve the post-disaster fears of those affected by the accident. Not to mention, the psychoanalysts who run private psychiatric clinics are highly respected and wise men of high social standing. Of course, the fees are also expensive, there is no medical insurance subsidy, and the course of treatment is mostly long-term, ten years is a common occurrence. Therefore, this industry also has a worrying tendency to become the patent of the rich.

The mainstream psychoanalysts in France have learned from Freud's psychoanalysis, and since Lacan, there has been a significant leap. Consult a psychoanalyst. It is no longer just through the interpretation of the dream, that the objects in the dream are given some fixed meaning symbols; the latest trend is to promote the oral language for any "slippery" (thought associations that slip through the mind) Various narrations , and based on this, find out the real psychological structure hidden behind all appearances, and the psychological entanglement will be opened up. In contrast, the break between Jung and Freud may not be wrong, but the minor schools that Jung brought out are misguided, trying to summarize a few theorems (such as classifying human personality into It is applicable to all individuals, and as a result, many psychological tests are used in modern enterprises to recruit people and assess employees' abilities, ignoring the hidden knife to obliterate humanity.

These psychoanalysts are not "doctors" in the contemporary sense, and most of them do not have a medical school graduate license. Each psychoanalyst who is able to practice will take at least ten years to do self-analysis after following the mentor. Nurtured and opened, it is based on "word of mouth". Consultants usually have one or two interviews a week, and the cost ranges from 50 to 80 euros each time to higher. After a year, it will be a huge expense, so it is difficult for low-level families to afford it. Some social assistance agencies set up by the government may provide some assistance to low-income groups, but the psychological guides there, regardless of their quality or work attitude, are sometimes too far apart.

The higher the "reputation" of the psychoanalyst, the higher the asking price. The psychoanalyst that the woman wants to see in the film seems to cost 120 euros (can't remember), which surprised me. But he was really good. When Mr. Tax was about to move out of his family's office (which was also his residence), he pointed his head and shouted, "Cut the umbilical cord!"

He was talking about the term "psychological umbilical cord." Since the birth of a baby, the physical umbilical cord has been cut, but a psychological "umbilical cord" is still needed between the child and the parents. Under normal circumstances, the "umbilical cord" is painful in the rebellious impulse of adolescence. Breaking, too early or too late, will have an unpredictable impact on a child's emotional world.

The daughter of a friend mentioned above, after being mentally ill, after consulting psychoanalysts in various ways, the vague information revealed that the root cause of the incident was still her parents. The relationship between her daughter and her mother has not been very good. Her mother loves to nagging, pushing her father to pour all her love into her daughter, creating a psychologically unbalanced family. To get through the crux, what is needed is the initiation of psychoanalytic counseling for the entire family, especially the mother. His mother immigrated from Mauritius. Although she is a professor of English and American literature at a university, her inner pressure has not been released. It is a typical example of "the problems of the previous generation are left over, this generation is not relieved, and the next generation is affected".

I think paranoidly, couples who are not truly in love should never have children: they cannot give their children a harmonious and harmonious family, and it is the children who suffer. Especially those women who use "childbirth" as a bargaining chip for love, such an idea is really bad.

Also, in my opinion, it is extremely difficult to implement psychoanalysis in China. One of the reasons is that Chinese culture does not have a tradition of "confession". Unlike the West, there is a tradition of "repentance" and "confession" to priests in religion. Since ancient times, Chinese women still have boudoir secrets that are a little more comfortable, but men are a little bit miserable, especially in the arena where there are open and secret fights, and they are buried in their hearts, and they are proud of their faces. Nowadays, women are also entering the workplace, and the entanglement between men and women has already surpassed the boundaries of love. The higher the position of men and women, the more difficult it is to "confess" with psychoanalysts at ease. Moreover, in this social age where "credibility" is seriously lacking.

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  • Gennaro 2022-05-12 21:05:04

    Delicate emotion is the biggest feature of this film, and it is also a French boring film.