Seeing the Symbolic Meaning of "EVA" from Freud Religion, some people read themselves. As a dynamic psychologist, I also want to interpret this anime that has had a huge impact on most people born in the 1990s from the perspective of classic psychoanalysis. air" for relevant interpretation, the new theatrical version will not be analyzed for the time being. [One] Apostles and Death Instinct Apostles, in the TV version of "EVA", there are 18 people in total, including Lilin, who is also a human being. The apostles are both called enemies and angels. The entire apostles are burdened with the "shock" by combining with the first apostle, so that all living beings return to their origins and start the cycle of life anew. In his later years, after the Second World War, Freud further perfected his own psychoanalytic theory. The "death instinct" corresponding to the "life instinct" is quite different from his other theories. death instinct ), also known as the destructive impulse, aggressive instinct, or aggression instinct, Freud believed that the death instinct is an innate impulse to destroy order and return to a pre-life state. In EVA, the innate mission of all apostles is to destroy, destroy, and return all living beings to their original origin, the "pre-life state." The so-called innate mission is essentially us Human beings have desires that exclude social existence and exist in the form of animal instincts, such as aggression instincts and sexual instincts. In Freud's theory of personality structure, the structure of personality is divided into three parts "self", "id" and "superego". Among them, the id follows the general "pleasure principle" of animal instincts. In the structure of the id, any instinct will not be suppressed or castrated, such as our desires - sex or aggression, and finally the desire to return to death. In Freud's theory, the life instinct and the death instinct are opposed to each other, but they will eventually transform into each other. The pre-declaration state, that is, "regression." At the beginning of birth, human beings face the trauma of separation from their mothers - childbirth. When people encounter adversity or problems that they cannot handle, they always hope to return to their mother's arms and return to a state of carefree and trouble-free, and this extreme form of "regression" , is to return to the "pre-life state", that is, in the "mother's womb", in the EVA, all the apostles are running towards the same goal "Lilith's egg", which actually symbolizes the regression of human death instinct. the most extreme state. We see that in "Sincerely For You", everyone has turned into LCL and become "one body", which is essentially the most extreme embodiment of a death instinct. It can be said that the entire EVA is a description of human beings fighting against their own death instinct. However, death itself is an unstoppable thing. Just like our birth, the separation from the "mother's womb" cannot be stopped. That's why the show has made such a deep impression on so many people - we all long for death, but we all fear it.
(1) The symbolic meaning of the first apostle Adam The first apostle, the life form in "Evangelion". Adam was one of the reasons for the "second shock". The glowing giant that appeared in the South Pole is his posture, very similar in appearance to EVA, with huge wings of light. When it was discovered in the Antarctic ice in 2000, the gun of Longinus was inserted in its chest. When the gun was removed, it woke up and ran away. Afterwards, it was restored to the original embryo form by SEELE and solidified in resin. It was carried by the blessing and returned to the third new Tokyo city from the German NERV branch together with the second machine and Asuka. Adam and Lilith are the source of life from which humans, evangelists and apostles are born. The Tao Te Ching says, "One life two, two begets three, and three begets all things." It can be said that Adam is the original source of the entire "EVA" and the origin of everything. Adam was the first human being in the "Bible", or the first A man, but in "EVA", Adam represents the image of "mother". "Adam and Lilith are the source of life. Humans, Evangelists, and apostles are all born from them." In fact, the most accurate expression should be that "Adam" gave birth to "Lilith", and then there are all things (humans and Apostle.) But Adam, who gave birth to all things, has the ability to destroy all things. In the "first shock", all things tremble or surrender before the image of this "mother". This is also the reason why the first machine is almost invincible as soon as it runs away. In EVA, Adam is the symbol of "the origin of motherhood". Maybe many readers will have a question when they see this: "Why do we always think that mothers should be a symbol of gentleness and peace?" In fact, in many cultures in the world, there are images of "tyrant mothers". For example, "Gaia", the mother of the gods in Greek mythology, is described in The Theogony as follows: Conflict and chaos come from Gaia, the mother of all gods, and it is this mother goddess who gave birth to all the gods of the bright universe. . In her, we see both creation and destruction, order and chaos, and in general, darkness and chaos are her essence. The development of human society itself is a transition from the matriarchal clan to the patriarchal society, so it can be seen that in the initial human society, the matriarchy is absolutely supreme. ". The reason why director Hideaki Anno made the first machine the strongest existence among the three machines should also have this meaning in it. After all, the first machine has all the soul of Ikari Yui. As for the symbolism of the first machine, We will talk about it in detail later. As you can imagine, Anno Hideaki's mother
(2) Incomplete mother - Lilith's "EVA", Lilith and the first apostle Adam are both called the origin of all things, and there is no doubt that Lilith has a real female and mother's sexual characteristics - childbirth and pregnancy. Found during human exploration of the Black Moon beneath Japan. Her soul was separated and attached to Rei Ayanami, so there was a fusion scene in the movie version. Under the leadership of Commander Ikari, the E plan began to restore and restore the apostles, and they were nailed to Terminal, the deepest part of the ground. Dogma central dogmatic cross. Its image is a white giant with seven eyes on the cross of the 'Final Dogma', the lowermost restricted area of NERV headquarters (LILITH face = SEELE logo). Originally, she only had the upper body, but after the spear of Longinus was pulled out , began to grow feet, and the abdomen began to expand, there is pregnancy. A third cataclysm will occur when she awakens again, and all life will return to her as a living being that exists as a whole. However, when we look at Lilith, she is not a giant of light like Adam. From a symbolic point of view, she only symbolizes a part of the female body - the womb. So from a symbolic point of view, Lilith is only responsible for the most mysterious part of the female body, "the womb that breeds life". Here we can look at a detail that exists in it. The foot came out, and the abdomen began to swell, and there was a phenomenon of pregnancy." This process is undoubtedly a symbol of Yangju's departure from the answer, so Lilith has the phenomenon of pregnancy. We know that guns are often a symbol of male genitalia in imagery. There is a detail here that the body that pulled out the Longinus gun in the TV version is the No. 0 machine, but why is the No. 0 machine to complete such a ceremony similar to xingjiao? Because Machine Zero is the only machine that does not have a human soul and can function normally, the use of it to pull out the Longinus gun shows a symbol - ziwei. Why is there such a symbol? In fact, there is an echo in the old theatrical version, that is, the details of Ikari Shinji facing Asuka ziwei - the direct way to obtain self-sexual desire is ziwei, we know that the soul of the goddess Lingbo itself is peeled off from Lilith Yes, in a sense, only the zero machine to pull out the Longinus gun will not trigger the third shock. Why such an image appears in "EVA" probably has something to do with the unusually developed AV industry in Japan. Under certain circumstances, women's lost bodies should be soft and beautiful, just a container for "guns" . Perhaps, in the heart of the ruffian, there is also a reproductive worship about the "Egg of Lilith"?
The growth of labor pains - the third apostle of the water angel Sakiel Sakiel (サキエル/SAKIEL), the apostle who came from the sea, is called the water angel in the Dead Sea text, which means the angel in charge of water, and his name originally meant It is "God's order", the first floor "Shamaim" living in heaven, bordering on the mortal world, it is said that it monitors the existence of human beings, so it has the ability to see evil after its fall. Light is the most lethal. In "EVA", the third apostle Sakir actually symbolizes in a sense that we who have experienced trauma (N2 landmines) can only "grow up" when we were young, but such growth in a realistic sense means "increasing" adaptability to society”—with a new mask. (The second face grew out of the original TV version). Psychoanalysis has experienced more than 100 years of development, from Freud's classic psychoanalysis, to Jung's mysticism psychoanalysis, to Lacan's postmodern psychoanalysis, and has also evolved into objects such as Klein's Relational schools, etc. These different schools of knowledge all appear in front of us with different faces, and their operability in clinical counseling is also greatly improved, but these schools have one thing in common is the perception of "trauma" . Psychoanalysis believes that "trauma" is the accumulation of negative emotions in childhood experiences, while Freud considered all negative emotional experiences to be "trauma", such as the trauma "birth" of separation from the mother for the first time in life, "weaning". "Wait, we also continue to put on various masks and grow after experiencing trauma after trauma. But here is a very interesting detail-Sakir did not die in the first pilot in a sense, but in the hands of the runaway Ikari Yui. The death of Sakir here, in a sense, also symbolizes the growth of Ikari Shinji, and the point is that the first growth here is the "alternative growth" of Ikari Yui, that is, the mother replaces the growth of the child , and did not let the child face the future world he needs to face. It can be said that this runaway of the first machine also laid the groundwork for many subsequent plots. Regarding Ikari Yu, Ikari Shinji and even Ikari Yuandu (the original sextant Yuandu, this name is also symbolic, and the name change is also a particularly specific symbolic image), many characters in the play will be analyzed later, so I won’t talk about it here. It can be said that Sakir is the most important transitional role in the entire "EVA" system, and it is also "alternative growth with a mask".
But the most important thing in this section is the plot - Shinji Ikari's acceptance of the object. In the object relations school, we can understand that the most important object in a person's life is the mother, followed by the father, but for the protagonist Shinji Ikari, the most important object relationship - the relationship with the mother, is full of trauma, this kind of The trauma caused his avoidance of his childhood memories—it was too painful for his personality to bear the pain, so he would forget this too painful memory. This is a defense mechanism of human psychology. Too much psychological trauma can lead to depersonalization and even larger psychological or physical problems. In the plot of the fourth episode, Shinji Ikari opened his cabin door and let two classmates enter, which has two very important meanings: the first one was instigated by Misato, and the second very important meaning was one of them. attacked him. We all know that Shinji Ikari usually avoids the aggressive behavior of people around him, and there is a very important psychological mechanism in it - since Shinji Ikari was not affirmed by his father when he was a child; and Boys who have not been affirmed by their fathers have two important psychological characteristics: first, the Oedipus complex is particularly strong; second, learned helplessness, that is, "I am not supported and protected", Ikari Shinji After leaving EVA, in a sense, even Oedipus' desire was suppressed, so he looked very cowardly in the eyes of many people. Opening the hatch to let the other two enter the EVA, in a sense, is also a reconciliation of his past, so if we look closely at the changes in Ikari Shinji's character in the EVA, we will find his original desire to attack inwardly (Depression, inferiority complex, etc.), it is gradually evolving outwards. In essence, this is the development process of our human life. The investment of libido or psychological energy is always mother-self-father-outside-self-death Instinct to carry out the cycle in this way, and Ikari Shinji is no exception. Later experiences and traumas caused his process to be messy and closed. We will discuss this later when we decompose the symbolic meaning of Ikari Shinji. Let’s go back to the symbolic meaning of the day apostle again. This apostle was finally killed by Ikari Shinji with a high particle knife, but note that there is a very interesting point here. Ikari Shinji was launched in violation of Misato’s instructions The attack is related to the self-growth of Ikari Shinji we mentioned earlier. It can be said that for Ikari Shinji, he completed the first self-growth by reconciling with the unloved self in the past. A growing force against Misato (Misato is another evolution of Ikari Shinji's Oedipus complex, we later will continue to analyze. ), by confronting Miri, to express his subconscious desire to "want to grow up".
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