This is an incomplete psychoanalytic film review.
There are many metaphors and symbols in Lars von Trier's works, and he likes to be entangled in the themes of anti-rationality and anti-institutionalization. The things that are designated as evil and dark in the evolution of human society have always been the eternal topic of his films.
"Antichrist" follows Lars von Trier's usual style of "deviant", "horror" and "pain"
At the beginning of the film, there is a picture of the child just waking up and getting out of bed to put on shoes - the five-star shoes and socks the child wears, and the shoes placed upside down under the bed, which is a metaphor for the appearance of Satan (the upside-down pentagram is a symbol of Satanism). The arrangement of many five stars is reminiscent of the American flag, which once again confirms that the director likes to satirize American capitalism in the play.
The male and female protagonists in the film do not have names, except for the face of their son Nick, and no one else's face appears in the end. At the beginning, the sex scene of the hero and heroine overlapped with the scene of Nick falling and the heroine's orgasm, pointing directly to Eve's "original sin" of stealing the forbidden fruit. In the end, the heroine's fate of being strangled and burned to death is a metaphor for the Middle Ages. Hunting of witches. The plot development of the entire movie is to illustrate: this mouth is destined to become a debt to be repaid forever.
The most important principle that should be adhered to in the process of psychoanalytic treatment is "moderation", that is, to make the patient frustrated, which can be divided into two ways: refusing to accept the patient's need for eroticism, and refusing to release any anxiety signals in front of the patient. By consistently frustrating the patient in these two ways, the patient's needs and desires will continue to be the force that drives her work and change.
But the male protagonist ended up having sex with the female protagonist more than once, and did not think about his own emotional relationship with the patient. Later, the female protagonist's schizophrenia and Jassyri were also related to the language used by the male protagonist (the language of yang). Relevant - the source of fear of the heroine who keeps chasing after the heroine is actually making therapeutic suggestions and brainwashing the patient. The purpose of psychoanalysis is not to relive the past experience, nor to vent the repressed emotions, but to express it in words The truth of desire. The heroine is embedded in the symbol system built by the hero, and every time the heroine speaks, she is brought into the symbol system built by the hero. The right to speak belongs to the yang side, which reminds me of Wang Xiaobo mentioned in the silent majority that a foreign devil asked him this question: your Chinese theory of yin and yang, how come all good things belong to yang, and there is nothing left for yin? Of course, these words are not all logical, but there is some truth to them. It seems to confirm what Confucius said, "only women and villains are difficult to raise". And you rarely hear any response from the attacked party. Here, too, we can see the theme that the director has worked so hard to express.
The death of the child directly points to the repressed object, and the heroine is facing every sexual scene - "traumatic situation", "repression" and "repressed object" continue to return but cannot be released. When the subject of the heroine faces the desire of the other (sexual desire) and is not sure what kind of object she is, she can measure the difference between her need for sex and the trauma caused by sex (women are evil). , leading to increased anxiety and guilt in the heroine. Anxiety is where she hangs between the moment when she no longer knows where she is and when she can no longer find her own future. And this sense of anxiety arises from being placed in the moment between the imagined pre-Oedipal triangle and the Oedipal quaternary, and trying to avoid the fundamental danger at any cost, in Lacan's theory. To understand, the heroine is in the reconstruction work trying to recover. However, due to the love-hate coexistence pattern/relationship between the heroine and the hero, eroticism and aggression were implicated, and the analyst did not properly deal with this aggression, which was accompanied by "a marked increase in the resistance of the patient at the lowest level". The horrific attempt to hurt the male protagonist's phallus, through castration of the sexual organ symbol, is actually the female protagonist's disposal to protect the subject from anxiety.
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