The more I watched Rick and Morty S2, the more I liked it. Many episodes gave me some questions to think about. In episode 7, when Rick bitterly called Summer a psychoanalysis lunatic, he suddenly reminded me that I could look at the story from the perspective of psychology, and Rick and Morty was very suitable. This is a play with a lot of metaphors, and the characteristic of metaphors is that different audiences may see different metaphors. For me, I see a lot of psychological metaphors in it. RaM also has many social, political, religious, etc. metaphors but I am not good at it, so I will not talk about it.
E3 : Connection and Self
'I'm attracted to you for the same reason i can't be with you. ' Why did unity leave rick? Unity's ability is to unify others, i.e. to influence and assimilate others, but Rick is the only one who can influence Unity, which leads to unity'lose myself and become part of you'. In the relationship between unity and rick, it seems that only There can be an active, conscious individual, and the other can only be assimilated and repressed. It is not a matter of relationship or concept that is discussed in detail here. Back to ourselves, this episode throws us a question, with Love, Connection and Experience, how to keep 'Self'?
My answer: 'Self' is never a constant substance, 'Self' is always changing, the environment is always shaping us. A topic often discussed in psychology is nature vs nurture, born or nurtured. There is no standard answer to this question. In the real world, the influence of the two always coexists. A good relationship can make the individual see oneself more clearly and even make the self more complete, but a bad relationship can suppress and hurt the self. The subjectivity of the individual lies in what kind of self we can choose to be.
E4: Good and Bad memories make us Real
Parasite's illusion is broken when Morty realizes that he has bad memories with the real rick, but only unreal good memories with the false image of the parasite. This episode asks: Why do we remember so many bad experiences? Memory is very strange. People tend to remember bad experiences. A very bad experience can even lead to long-term pain. So why do people have bad memories? So this is the real you, the real world. This episode is telling us that there are always good and bad relationships between people, but this is the real relationship.
When someone gives you the only 'good' impression, maybe that person isn't really treating themselves or you. Butthole is someone who is so considerate of others that he never makes a bad impression on his mom, which makes one suspicious.
E7: Thought Suppression produces Anxiety
Rick's consciousness hid in the teenager's body. Summer felt that Rick had suppressed his view of the real world and his evil thoughts, which made Rick show through the anxiety of the teenager, but Rick's real side was no longer aware of it. So this episode is still emphasizing that people need to be true to themselves, face and accept their own thoughts, and sooner or later, anxiety will erupt from excessively suppressed consciousness. When anxiety occurs, it is the body that warns you.
E8: you can't 'Make' people like you
This episode is filled with a lot of physical violence, as well as satire of phallus worship. Especially those shows, I thought they wanted to talk about 'body', but it seems the writers didn't think so (or I didn't get it?) but jerry's story is interesting and his behavior can be explained using cognitive behavioral therapy analysis. Jerry's fanatical pursuit of "being liked" and unbearable for "not being liked", his core belief may be "I am not worthy of being liked", "I am not cute", thus resulting in "I need to be liked". The middle belief of being liked by others proves itself with this. By the way, people who think like this are likely to have difficulty getting unconditional love in the process of growing up, so they regard love/like as conditional (I only mention it by the way, it has nothing to do with jerry). At first, his request for penis to change the life of a great man was verbally accepted because he felt the moral pressure of 'the whole universe needs his penis'. If he refuses, he will be "disliked" by many people, so he wants to transfer the responsibility and pressure to Beth, but unfortunately Beth sees through and exposes Jerry all at once. After Jerry felt the feeling of being "disliked" by everyone, he found that he couldn't stand the feeling. And so it goes to the extreme of "you have to accept my offering and praise me", and the scene at the end of the story happens.
From this point of view, the entire story is in line with the character setting and behavioral logic, coupled with the exaggeration and rendering of the comedy, which is an important factor in the success of rickandmorty. The above is an explanation of the logic of jerry's behavior, so what is the question that this episode throws me? I thought at first that I might be liked by "everyone", but when I looked back again I found that beth said 'you can't make people like you', I realized that the point of beth was 'make' and It's not 'people', so the question is: Can I 'make' others like me? Deliberately pleasing me can't get me a real love Just let them hate it.
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