The beginning of the film is a dream full of fear of parting. According to Freud's theory, the strong jealousy of one parent can produce enough destructive power. Relationships have permanent distress and effects. Such dreams recurred throughout Lennon's upbringing, especially as he was in an Oedipal mood of fear and anxiety.
In the process of the plot unfolding one by one, we can see the Oedipus complex unfolding on Lennon in a clear and complex manner. There are a total of five Oedipus complexes, all of which appeared very prominently in his growth.
First Oedipus Complex
According to Freud's theory, early in human development, fathers have exclusive sexual rights over their sisters and daughters. So the son resisted, killing the father, more likely eating it. Feeling sinful, the son repressed his sexuality towards his mother, his sisters and his daughter. This is how incest taboos and tribal extramarriage arose.
This sounds terrifying, but we can take it as a bloody reality legend, but it cannot be denied that boys' early sexual pursuits do come from their mothers, and they always want to occupy the father's position and compete with their own father. The mother's love, that is, the Oedipus complex, is an important factor in the development of personality. The first Oedipus complex can be formed at the age of 3 to 6 years.
The essence of Oedipus complex is similarity and complementarity. In the film, we see that Lennon grew up in the parents of his uncle and aunt. He is of the same sex as his uncle, and his resemblance arouses recognition, making him take his uncle as an example, learn from him and imitate him, absorb his uncle's psychological characteristics and qualities, and become a part of yourself. It can be seen that when Lennon got the harmonica gift, he felt a complete sense of achievement in his heart. Lennon and his aunt are of different sexes, but they complement each other and depend on each other. This is the foundation of love or object love. Although he disliked his aunt's strictness and harshness, please pay attention to one detail, that is, when Lennon heard the news of his uncle's death, his subconscious expression was like a happy smile, and the real pain that followed was crying while hugging his aunt. .
Oedipus complex is the most basic and earliest interpersonal relationship, and various interpersonal relationships after growing up are affected by Oedipus complex to varying degrees. It can be said that the various interpersonal relationships that followed were the deformation of the Oedipus complex.
The second Oedipus complex
appeared after entering adolescence. Children in this period like to make up heroic, noble, and glorious "life experience fantasies", which is to imagine that they were not born to their current parents, but were adopted since childhood. Yes, "natural" parents are much better than today's parents in every way.
The film is even more coincidental, but the object of Lennon's second Oedipus complex is his biological mother. It is not difficult to see that getting rid of his first mother, Aunt Mimi, and finding a second mother for himself were his most urgent psychology at that time. So he was completely infatuated with his biological mother in an instant. We can see that in this part of the film, the ambiguous emotions of the Oedipus complex are fully revealed.
If this kind of psychology is too strong, it will lead to non-blood delusions, that is, to baselessly believe that he was not born to his current parents. The performance in the film is that Lennon strongly resists his aunt's discipline and is very repulsive.
The third Oedipus complex
grows with age, and the object of the Oedipus complex gradually becomes younger, and is finally replaced by peers, forming the third Oedipus complex. At this point, the analogous effect manifests itself in the formation of friendships with peers of the same sex, as can be seen in the friendships between Lennon and his bandmates during this period. The complementary effect is to fall in love with the opposite sex of the same age. You can refer to Lennon's first sex with a girl who looks exactly like her mother, especially the red nails that have been featured several times. It can be seen that the true sense of friendship and love was born.
This similarity and complementarity takes two forms, one is cooperation and the other is confrontation. In the beginning, cooperation and confrontation were directed to different people, that is, cooperation with some people and confrontation with others. Note that Lennon's attitude towards Paul, and the subsequent transformation, reflects this psychology very subtly. Process. Complementary effects are also divided into two forms of spiritual love and sexuality. They point to different opposite sexes, and divide women into goddesses and prostitutes, so the girl with red nails is obviously the object of sexual replacement.
As personalities continue to mature, many people are able to unite opposites, both cooperative and competitive in interpersonal relationships, while also being able to unite love and sex in the same person. Of course, there are also some people who can't complete this kind of unification in their lifetime. Yoko Ono should be the unity of Lennon, but we can still see the Oedipus complex in the six-year-old.
The fourth Oedipus complex
waits for oneself to get married and have children, and the parental image is replaced by the child. This is the fourth Oedipus complex. In the film, we can't see Lennon's fourth Oedipus complex, but we can really see the performance of his biological mother's fourth Oedipus complex, completely doting on Lennon, even if he doesn't go to school, he can be doted on. Despite being crowned with musical support, most mothers are incomparable, Aunt Mimi is an example.
In our real life, it is also a common phenomenon that mothers prefer their sons, otherwise there would not be so many wars between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The more common performance is to hope that children will become dragons and daughters will become phoenixes, educating their children according to their own standards, and letting them become people like themselves or people in their ideals.
The fourth Oedipus complex was pure and flawless at the beginning, but in the later period it was mixed with elements of sex and violence. At this time, when the child has entered adolescence and faces a slim daughter, a father will not know how to express his feelings, while a strong son will no longer obey his father, and small frictions often occur between father and son. The same is true for mothers, where daughters become rivals and sons become temptations.
The fifth Oedipus complex
The fifth Oedipus complex is naturally produced when the fourth Oedipus complex is suppressed. With the repression of the fourth Oedipus complex, young people other than children replaced the biological children. It can be seen in the film that Lennon's mother's attitude towards Paul had an obvious mutual attraction.
The performance in real life is even more varied. Some old people love students, some old people like to recognize their sons, and some old people love other people's children more than their own children. There are also some elderly people who dote on their grandsons and often have conflicts with their sons for the sake of their grandsons, which is also a manifestation of the fifth Oedipus complex.
Finally, what I want to say is that we need to start thinking about the sacred title of mother again, and look at the emotional factors that she represents rationally, and seriously deal with mothers to themselves, as well as their own to their mothers, and even to become parents in the future. should have impact. In any case, in this world, a mother is the only person you can't choose, someone you want to love deeply, and you will also become a unique, complete, and loved person because of this.
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