The lack of childhood, the formation of personality, inner peace and Zen - the perception of "Kung Fu Panda 2"

Yvette 2022-04-19 09:01:25

Kung Fu Panda 2 returns. Maybe because I watched it on Father's Day, the perspective of attention will be a bit special. My first reaction while watching it is that this is not a story about inner peace, but a story about how one's childhood or early life experiences affect one's personality.



The film follows the growth of two main characters. Panda Bao, the panda village in his hometown was chased and killed by swordsmen. His mother tried her best to hide him in a pile of vegetable cargo compartments to attract pursuers. With fear, A Bao wandered to Taiping Village to feed his hunger with radishes and was adopted by a goose who opened a restaurant. He became a panda hero who likes to overeat, but is full of sympathy, and likes to help the weak and act chivalrous. Lord Shen, who was the intended successor of Phoenix City when he was a teenager, was not recognized by his parents because of his ambition for power, and forcibly expelled him from the power core of Phoenix City. After years of business and accumulation of strength and access to the core technology of thermal weapons, he regained power and tried to implement his hegemony and realize his ambitions.

These two growth stories seem very, very stereotyped, but also very reasonable in life. Your childhood experiences, from infancy to the end of the personality formation stage (which may take longer than getting your ID card), will affect your personality during this time of major events. If you are missing something during this period, it will not only slow down your personality maturity, but will cause you to stay there in a certain area of ​​your life until you make up for the missing things. The initiators of these deficiencies may be parents, teachers, friends, brothers and sisters, or the wider society and environment. When a person is fettered by this lack of life, he tends to have two manifestations - when he plays a weak role to adapt to the environment, he will tend to the society to play the role he lacks, for what he thinks possible Support from those in need; as he plays a strong man to change the world, he asks society to make up for those missing things in whatever form he thinks might help.

For example, Po's overeating may come from hunger and unease in the cargo box as a child - eating is the most instinctive way to fill the panic; the memories of childhood deep in his heart lead to his thirst for justice and strength, making him On the road of heroes. However, there are not many early descriptions of Lord Shen. At the beginning of the story, he appeared as a strong man. In order to fill the shadow of his parents’ disapproval and support, he wanted the whole world to recognize and submit to his ambitions and ambitions. Ideal, with the help of his wolves, feather arrows and artillery.

There are quite a few similar examples in real life. For example, we often see some children whose parents are very strict and even violent when they are still immature, fantasizing that if they can find someone who loves them, then all their depression, inferiority, negative emotions and personality will be cured at this moment, and often Playing various friendly and optimistic roles to find such a lover, but such children's emotional problems are often the endless demands for tolerance, consideration, and obedience to their lover, and then there is no more...

Another example is myself, when I was a child, my father was a very emotional character, judged things in black and white, expressed his opinions very emotionally, easily overjoyed, and pursued absolute and unquestionable majesty for me and my mother, never Someone who allows you any debate, questioning, passive resistance, or expression of negative emotions; while I grew up with a stable personality, I tended to like debate, look critically at issues, and be reluctant to show anger in situations where I don't have full control or sad mood, and often like to use a rationalist point of view to examine other people’s emotions, and use a cold-blooded tone to dispel other people’s emotions; but at the same time, I have also formed the following characteristics, including the untimely hope of getting the other party’s support through debate I have hurt my feelings; I am indifferent to other people's emotional expressions, and the more intense my emotions, the more I will be resistant and indifferent; I will try to find ways to not cooperate with things that are imposed on me without asking my opinion; In some areas suitable for emotional catharsis, such as on stage, in the KTV box, I will work very hard and so on. All this is not unrelated to the strong influence of my father in childhood. On the one hand, what was missing in my childhood world was a rational concern and the right to let people freely express their opinions and control themselves; Tolerance of negative emotions within oneself. These two deficiencies may still be more or less tethered to me, forming every aspect of me that you know.

I have encountered a lot of citable cases when I was doing a tarot online shop before, and I will not list them one by one, because I believe that so many arguments are not necessary. I believe that this theory of childhood and personality formation is in the classic psychoanalytic works, For example, Jung and Freud's treatises have mentioned them. As a non-professional who has only flipped through a few pages, I will not go to examine them one by one. But at the same time, it also reminds me of the journey to the Major Arcana in Tarot theory, which describes the growth process of a field in one's life. If there is a reversal, you will stay there until you know the subject of completing this step. . very similar to this state of mind. This is also where the Tarot divination system is very interesting.

In the animation, Po faced his deeply buried childhood memory, accepted it and obtained inner peace. In fact, the concept of inner peace translated into "inner peace" has some imported colors, actually speaking , it is a state of mind, that is, to recognize which needs in your subconscious are for the real needs of the moment, and those are just to make up for those missing in your heart. When you recognize this and control it, and get rid of the latter, your heart will really be at peace. In this way, this inner peace can have a very Chinese translation called "Zen".

If you are interested, you can also think about the things and desires that you are entangled in and attached to at the moment, which are just to make up for the lack of memory in your youth. I hope that everyone can get rid of this futile search for compensation as soon as possible, and get their own Zen as soon as possible.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 quotes

  • Mr. Ping: So, how did it go? Did you save China?

    Po: Yep.

    Mr. Ping: Well, I knew you would! That's why I had these signs made! "My son saved China - you too can save! Buy one dumpling, get one free!"

  • Mantis: I didn't have any problems with my dad. Maybe it's 'cause Mom ate his head before I was born...