Susan's crisp laughter on the street corner soothed the suffering of maternal loss.
Lonely Kane was captured by his own fantasy, just as everyone became the prisoner of the maternal illusion.
The media tycoon and middle-aged politician is reaching the peak of his career, and his participation in the election may become the peak and climax of the illusion of power for the governor and even the president.
Don't go wrong at this time.
But Mr. Kane still had an accident.
It is the last mistake that politicians should make, and it is the most common mistake-heroes are sad for beauty.
On that night, I met with the showgirl Susan. Developed into an engaging extramarital affair.
In the end, he lost his reputation, career and family, and won the opportunity to marry Susan.
Why are thousands of men who are as savvy and capable as Kane make the most incredible "mistakes" at the most important moments of their lives?
—— Falling down at the feet of a woman or under a pomegranate skirt, the hero is saddened by Beauty Pass, and the hero has become a romantic ghost.
There have been many explanations.
One of them is biological reductionism. To put it simply, the heroes are very sad because they have developed testosterone.
Of course, the heroes will not agree with this hypothesis that the hero and the monkey king are compared, because a person indulging in beauty is unlikely to become a hero;
although many heroes will have a period of indulging in beauty after becoming a hero , If you continue to indulge, this hero is likely to become a bear or a failed hero.
The "beauties" would not agree with this kind of biological reductionism. There are more people who are much more beautiful than beauties. Why don't heroes choose other beauties?
For example, Susan is not a superb beauty, whether compared with Kane's original match, or compared with a lot of dancing girls around Kane at a celebration party.
Psychoanalysts certainly disagree with this statement even more.
In the vulgarized version of psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis is equivalent to a slogan, "The root of everything is sexual desire."
And the "sexual desire" here must be the animal's sexual desire model, that is, the animal's estrus and mating driven by testosterone.
This is the number one misunderstanding of psychoanalysis.
The second misunderstanding is that “psychoanalysis is to dig out the childhood scars of others, and everything must be traced back to childhood.”
These two misunderstandings are so classic and enduring, if they have become the distinction between layman and insider psychoanalysts. Test questions.
Just like whether you will appreciate "Citizen Kane" can be used to distinguish between "real fans" and "general movie audiences".
Kane chose a special woman on a special night and developed a special extramarital relationship.
From a rational point of view, from a utilitarian point of view, from the point of view of middle-class values, it is indeed a "mistake."
However, from the unconscious point of view, from the point of view of the repressive libido, from the point of view of the self-object relationship, from the psychoanalytic point of view of attachment mode and intersubjectivity, etc., Kane’s mistake is so rightly followed. Its unconscious truth is impulsive.
The truth of this impulse is, "Mother's desire must be satisfied." (Corel, A., 1998) The
reason why Susan can enter Kane's heart is that she appears at the right moment in an appropriate identity.
A moment when Kane is mourning the loss of his mother. This is the right moment.
Susan also has an appropriate identity, that is, she is a person who tries her best to satisfy her mother's desires.
Her mother imagined that she could become a singer and perform at the Grand Opera House, and Susan also agreed with this fantasy and worked hard on various stages. Just like the small county singer in the movie "Li Chun".
Why would an executor of a mother's desire impress Kane?
Because this is the core of Kane's identity.
"Mother's desires must be satisfied" is the core directive of the identity of "Kane".
Driven by this instruction, he achieved incomparable achievements, and at the same time, he was also destined to die alone.
"Citizen Kane" is considered by many film critics to be the most artistically accomplished film in film history.
The key to its immortal charm is that it reflects the "unideology" of the times.
Just as Jia Baoyu in "A Dream of Red Mansions" corresponds to the fighters of the New Culture Movement hundreds of years later, Ximen Qing in "Jin Ping Mei" heralds the spiritual emptiness of China's wealthy class today.
Kane in "Citizen Kane" also heralded the decline of the hardworking and brave American spirit and the advent of the tsunami in the age of narcissism and emptiness.
Nowadays, the diagnosis and treatment of narcissistic personality is a compulsory course for every clinical psychologist.
In 1941, psychiatrists knew almost nothing about narcissism.
In this year, the film "Citizen Kane" was released, which deeply portrayed the life of a narcissist.
Kane is a healthy narcissist, that is to say, his mentality is completely healthy, and at the same time, his life is a tragedy.
In 1941, psychoanalyst Melanie Klein also entered the theater and watched "Citizen Kane". After returning home, she wrote a "comment" on the film. She did not publish this comment until it was unearthed by Mason in 1998 (Mason, A., 1998).
Although Klein’s understanding of Kane is somewhat biased from today’s perspective, One thing is accurate. She pointed out from the beginning that the "Rosebud" that Kane never forgets is a symbol of the lost mother. Just as the meaning of a baby's life lies in finding breasts, Kane's life also begins. Looking for the lost mother.
This journey of trying to save the death of motherhood began in the 19-23 minutes of this film. This short 4 minutes explained the social and family foundations of Kane’s personality.
Kane’s mother is a woman with a stiff and indifferent facial expression. At the same time, she cares about her son and asks him to wear a scarf when playing in the snow. She hopes that her son has a bright future,
so she wants to send her son to a distant place. Chicago, at the same time, she also expressed her other thoughts in the dispute with her husband-she wants her son to stay away from her father. It was not clear whether she was worried that the father would abuse the child, or if she wanted to prevent the father from giving regular training to her son.
In any case, Kane’s mother is clearly the head of the family, and Kane’s father is a cautiously ridiculous laughter. Although he wants his children to grow up with him, he is a wife with high stakes and control. In front of him, he withdrew from his father's position.
The yin and decay in the family is a breeding ground for narcissism. Such as Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan.
Because children, especially boys, cannot respect and identify with a weak father at this time, and at this time, if the mother relies on the son as if dependent on the husband, the son will occupy the position of father and husband in the family and experience nothing. Can't feel it.
Fortunately for Kane, although his father was weak, he was not absent during his childhood at least. He still hopes to raise his son, although he is not firm.
He is weak and incompetent, unable to make money, and knows nothing about the laws of capitalism. His father's function has been recaptured by that strong wife, or, more literally, castrated.
Every man should be grateful to his wife, because the wife provided an opportunity to make it possible for this man to become a husband and a father from a boy. From this point of view, the role of a wife in the growth of a man’s personality is really invaluable. To parents.
Every woman should thank her husband, because the husband provided an opportunity to make it possible for this woman to become a wife and a mother from a girl. From this point of view, the role of a husband in the growth of a woman’s personality is really invaluable. To parents.
In the many journeys of a woman becoming a mother, the one that is most easily overlooked is: respecting and caring for the father of the child.
And women’s ignorance of their husbands has complex and diverse psychological motives——
Some are because they have cultivated hatred and jealousy towards men since childhood, especially in the context of patriarchal culture, boys-girls are more of a competitive relationship;
some are because they have been affected since childhood, seeing their mothers is disrespectful and disrespectful. Those who care for their fathers don’t have the template of "loving couples" in their minds, and naturally they can’t take pictures of them in their lives;
some women neglect the cultivation of parent-child relationship, and the reasons for neglecting the construction of husband and wife relationship are simple and direct--
" This is not the life I want. This husband is not the husband I want. I got married because of social pressure. This child is not the child I want to have. I gave birth to her because of family pressure.”
Many education experts are heartbroken. I appealed-women don't throw their children to their parents and leave it alone! This is not good for children's growth.
Experts think that women lack common sense of education. In fact, as long as a woman recognizes the identity of a mother from the heart, she will naturally understand common sense of education, even more professional than an expert in education.
Even if the woman doesn't know how to write, the mothers can also nurture their children into talents based on the fusion of motherly love generated by the identity of the mother.
Women throwing their children to their parents do not seem to conform to the logic of education, but they completely conform to the logic of unconsciousness.
"Since I gave birth to this child for your inheritance, to let you pass the emptiness of old life, and to give birth to your face, then of course you should be responsible for raising this child. I have already given birth to the child. You paid so much—career stagnation, loss of body, severe labor pain—what happened to the child who was born for you?” In the
same way, Kane fell in love with Susan that night, although it didn’t fit. The logic of political games conforms to the law of unconscious operation.
This pattern began in Kane's family. A typical law of capital begins to infiltrate the family of traditional ethical laws.
In other words, most Chinese families today are facing similar dangers and opportunities to the Kane family back then.
The characteristic of this family structure is that the mother and the capital spokesperson form an alliance and occupy the core power position of the family.
If the father can become the spokesperson of capital, then he has the right to participate in the discipline of children. Otherwise, he would be pushed far away, like the classic lens metaphor in the film.
And if he tries to take back his father's position with violence, then he will be completely deprived of his father's identity.
In "Citizen Kane", the person who finally replaced the father's function is a bank manager, who is a symbol of a perfect capital spokesperson.
This bank manager abides by the ethics of professional managers' fiduciary responsibility, and takes care of Kane's assets wholeheartedly, so that this asset continues to increase, making Kane the sixth richest man in the world.
This bank manager completely followed the laws of capitalism, so he couldn't understand why Kane wanted to run a "loss-making" newspaper?
He is a perfect "capitalist rookie".
Kane himself does not abide by the laws of capitalism, and he is not a qualified "newcomer to capitalism."
According to the laws of capitalism, he should complete his studies at a prestigious university, then carefully manage the business, and work closely with his ex-wife’s uncle, the President of the United States, to obtain greater power and more money.
In particular, one should not be confused or have extramarital affair during the dangerous election process, and should not adhere to his ideal of "speaking for the workers and peasants" and offend those in power.
But Kane did not obey the discipline of the "capital father", just as he did not obey the discipline of his father in his childhood.
He wants to control everything.
It's like his mother controls everything in family life.
He wants to control his wife, his voters, his friends, his life.
He is struggling for autonomy, which was stripped of his childhood, when his mother and capital spokesperson dragged him away from the family.
Kane strongly desires love, whether it is the love of his wife, the love of his friends, or the love of the voters.
But in the end he lost all his love.
For three reasons:
First, his love is a kind of money lending. It's bank-style, mortgage-loan, and love with high interest rates. So Susan said, "You don't love me, you want me to love you."
Second, the love he gave. It's actually money, he thought, I will give you money and buy things for you. Just to give you love. And money, to him, is just meaningless paper. So Susan said, "You gave me a lot of things, but they are all meaningless to you."
This sentence hit the core of Kane's personality, and his life was meaningless. Because he rejected the meaning given to him by his family-"to be the richest person."
A person who lives in a capitalist society but rejects capitalist values-"A person lives not to pursue the continuous appreciation of capital do? "
this tragic figure, like the" Matrix "Mourinho as" Dream of Red Mansions "in Jia Baoyu, like, refuse to live in his life, but he Bignone and Jia Baoyu more tragic is that he did not An "other place" can go, can pin and project one's fantasies, ideals and dreams.
The third and most important thing is that what he gives is not what others want. He doesn't know what others want.
Take Susan, for example. He thinks that Susan has the same personality as him. Whatever his mother wants, he must do it. He heard that Susan's mother wanted her to be a singer, so he bought a teacher and a theater for Susan, and almost went to buy an art critic.
But he never thought that perhaps Susan, like him, needs to be able to freely choose her own life, step out of the control of maternal power, and live out her own will.
Kane's intimacy must fail. It originated from the fact that he had not been loved freely. He didn't know how to love himself, and naturally he couldn't give free love.
He lost everything and died in the mountains of wealth.
Like Michael Jackson, the latter said when the Grammy was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, the pain in this world comes from the children's childhood being stolen.
Child Kane looked up at the mother's face and the snowy sky under the overlook of his mother and capital spokesperson.
He asked: "Where am I going?", full of confusion.
This puzzled life ended with a dying call, "Rosebud!
" The symbol "Rosebud" was carved on the back of a sleigh. That was his last toy the day he left home.
Maybe the child’s inner voice is, "Mom and Dad, I don’t want to go there either, I just want to be by your side and have fun with my rosebuds."
This voice was not heard.
So it will not be said.
Securities, stocks, companies, politics, European sculptures, to this child, are inferior to the companionship of rose buds and parents.
Today, the parents of countless children are shaping their children in strict accordance with the capitalist formula for creating human beings. The ingredients of this formula are: first-level kindergarten, key high school, Olympiad, first-category undergraduate, piano four, English six, Financial education, emotional intelligence training, Harvard University...
This formula will inevitably create a large number of money-making masters and new capitalist talents.
There are bound to be many people who withdraw from the process of creating human beings and become game enthusiasts, mentally handicapped people, monks, cultivators, suicides by jumping from buildings, or new socialists.
If one day our children do things that seem completely "illogical", don't be surprised, don't be surprised, that's it.
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