Who is hiding in the civet cat?

Katheryn 2022-03-21 09:02:50

The scene described by Alan Weisman in "A World Without Us": As long as human beings disappear, nature will slowly take over the earth again, slowly erasing all traces of human beings. I saw the shadow of the tanuki, and it seemed to be hiding me in the shadow. It is not appropriate to compare the civet cat to the kindness and true self that remain in our hearts. The real person is likened to the self, which is the sum of complex growth in society and environment.

It looks like the process of the ego eroding the id step by step, our pure goodness, freedom, and love, the pure territory of the heart becomes smaller, the id's survival territory is getting more and more crowded, and it is so crowded that it can no longer reproduce more identities. I.

I like the changing skills of the civet cat in this film, it can only have the appearance of changing into a human being, but cannot truly become a human being. Just as the id cannot become the ego. The last scene where the civet cats tried their best to let people see the previous life and the state of the environment was the most touching. It's as if the ego sees the most essential state of the id in the past.

It is hoped that the reconciliation of the id and the ego will lead to the existence of the superego

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Pom Poko quotes

  • Narrator: One day, an urgent report interrupted Gonta's training at headquarters. He hurried home to the Takaga Woods to face tragedy.

    [Gonta arrives at the edge of a hill, and is greeted by the sight of miles of barren wasteland, with only a bulldozer and an excavator sitting where the woods had been]

    Narrator: More than half his childhood home had already been ravaged by destruction.

    [Gonta stares in horror. He lets out a howl of despair]

    Narrator: Gonta went mad with grief.

  • Gonta: "We have a full array of potent tricks." A load of hot air! We were idiots to think those old dudes could help us in the first place.