According to the order of the psychoanalytic theories involved in the film, first of all, the scene where the hero chooses when he buys a ticket with the help of the heroine contains the content about the association in psychoanalysis. In the movie, the heroine tries to awaken some information about Dr. Edward at the unconscious level of the hero. This information is suppressed in the subconscious by the hero for some reason, so the memory in the subconscious is mobilized by this method of association. The unconscious can be manifested not only in dreams, but also in some association experiments. Thinking of experiments is often a way to directly open the unconscious. Although its effectiveness is still worth exploring, it is widely used in the field of psychoanalysis, such as word association experiments. In many of Freud's or Jung's cases, the connection between these disturbances and emotionally charged episodes can be shown without difficulty, and their writings say that these disturbances of intentional behavior should be recorded.
Secondly, when the climax of the film is the analysis of the hero's dream, it has to be said that the interpretation of the dream in Freud's theory here not only expounds the basic point of the theory, but also has great artistic appreciation value. . According to Freud, dreams are far from being a disorder of contingent and unconscious associations as commonly thought of, but are autonomous and meaningful products of mental activity, so dream content can be used as evidence by psychologists for analyze. Dreams, like all complex psychological products, are things that have motives and their antecedent associative sequences, the result of combining personal experience with logical thinking, that is, dreams come from our clear life, so we can say from this that Dreams are a product of an unconscious source, and conclusions drawn from dreams have a certain meaning, in a sense, the same as that of other psychological theories. Regarding the analysis of dreams, the methods of dream analysis in psychoanalysis are similar to historical analysis and general synthesis methods. Dream analysis cannot exist independently of personal experience, but must combine the actual meaning of the things in the dream with the person's Actual experience, and then analyze the different symbolic meanings of different things. For example, in the movie, the hillside represents the sloping roof that once accidentally killed the younger brother. The countless eyes that are cut off represent the unwillingness to believe what they see with their own eyes, and the man with a beard represents Dr. Edward, the owner of the casino represents the director who killed Dr. Edward, and the man hiding behind the chimney with a gear in his hand symbolizes that someone killed Dr. Edward with a pistol in the dark, etc. We call these dream symbols a vague psychic product of origin, meaning, and purpose. Use this to explore the subconscious level of that person.
There are two other things worth noting in the dream passage, the concepts of trauma and repression. Speaking of trauma, it is to be said that Freud mentioned in "Studies on Hysteria" that hysteria and neurosis in general stemmed from a so-called trauma in early childhood. Nothing happens without a cause, and certain situations in the present are similar to those in traumatic situations, which will induce some awareness in the subconscious, thereby causing some behaviors that seem out of place in the actual situation. A concept that accompanies this is repression, also an early theory of Freud, and we usually use repression to refer to the mechanism by which a conscious content is expelled into a field outside of consciousness, the field of the unconscious. . The concept of repression is based on repeated observation. Neurotic patients do not want to remember some events and plots that they do not want to recall, and they think they have completely forgotten them, but the fact is that they have suppressed some of their own consciousness. , and "hidden" these unpleasant or traumatic events to the unconscious level. Combining the movie, we can see that at the beginning, the male protagonist did not talk about his younger brother in childhood. Here we can understand that he suppressed this unpleasant incident in his subconscious and was unwilling to recall; The biggest suspense in the first half of the film—whether the male protagonist is Dr. Edward, the reason for this problem is that the male protagonist pretended to be Dr. Edward. It can be seen that he suppressed the death of Dr. Edward in the subconscious level, so that He does not remember Dr. Edward himself, and he can also combine his childhood experience. This is a kind of atonement, a kind of repentance, and a manifestation of his inability to forgive himself for accidentally killing his younger brother. And, as we usually know, dealing with the subconscious will make us think of a lot of places that conflict with our id, and will naturally cause some unsuitable reactions, mainly referring to the emotional expression of anxiety. The main performance in the movie is syncope or anxiety.
Finally, let’s talk about the treatment principle of psychoanalysis. One of the main clues of the whole film is that the heroine conducts psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the hero. Some behaviors that need to mobilize the subconscious, such as: let the male protagonist look directly at the striped graphics that he is afraid of; force him to tell the destination of the ticket; let the male protagonist take the initiative to tell his dreams, etc., and the female protagonist is usually in the appropriate It is time to give some adaptive tasks to promote the exposure of the subconscious, and finally the male protagonist gets psychological repentance. From a Freudian psychoanalytical point of view, the psychoanalytic approach to neurosis is exploratory and anticipatory, focusing on trying to understand what tendencies lie behind the symptoms. Therefore, in the process of treatment, we must pay attention to the cooperation of the patient. The patient must focus on his inner life, combine some of the plots of the dream, and think consciously. With the help of a psychoanalyst, he is no longer stubbornly indulged in dreams or fantasies in his own way as before. Instead, look at your subconscious mind objectively, and deal with things that you used to fear or fear. Therefore, it can be seen that allowing the patient to actively participate in the treatment is the first principle of psychoanalysis.
Taken together, "Dr. Edward" combines psychoanalytic aspects of dreams, the subconscious, and therapy to present a fascinating story artistically.
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