Dad, you are the next one!

Arnold 2022-12-25 02:53:10

From the moment Anna talked with the psychologist about our nightmare, we began to walk into Anna's inner subjective world:

in Anna's spiritual world, everything is under her control.

Analyze Anna’s psychological defense mechanism with Floyd’s psychoanalytic theory: Anna’s

mother’s serious illness has been very disappointing, and her boyfriend is not only indifferent, but also thinking about making love to make her more sad. Anna went home from the party and went home to watch. Mother, her haggard appearance made her even more upset. Entering the house, through the hole in the door lock, Anna saw the scene of her father and the nanny having an affair. As a daughter, Anna suddenly hated the nanny under the influence of the Electra complex, so Anna took the oil can and wanted to burn the nanny, but accidentally killed the nanny. Sister Alex and mother burned to death. The death of her mother and sister had a huge trauma to Anna’s spirit. After several suicide attempts, Anna was sent to a mental hospital. She learned from her roommate Kemp that she had killed three children while working as a nanny. Transfer the hatred of Kemp to the stepmother. During the hospitalization, when the psychiatrist talked to Anna about the nightmare she had, when asked why Anna was holding the water bottle in her hand, Anna replied that she really couldn't remember it. In fact, Anna has been blaming herself for the manslaughter of her mother and sister, and subconsciously hoped that it was not her fault, so she reappeared in her dreams, but in real life she suppressed this part of the memory.

Displacement, replacement, substitution: The strong emotions and impulses caused by something cannot be directly vented to this object, so they are transferred to another object to reduce the mental burden.

Repression: It means that all impulses and desires that are not allowed by social morals and religious laws are unconsciously suppressed to the unconscious, making people unable to realize their existence.

Anna, who returned home with hatred for her stepmother, was very excited and missed seeing her sister Alex. In fact, her sister had died in the fire, but at this time Anna could not accept the fact that Alex was dead, so a negative defense mechanism was developed; at the same time; Anna is looking for the bad things of her stepmother everywhere under the guiding ideology of passive gaze. When she regrets her mistakes more and more, her nightmares become more terrifying, and her hatred for her stepmother becomes more intense. The hatred of the stepmother is projected through the imaginary sister Alex. When the real identity of the stepmother is traced, Alex has always played the role of the bad guy, and Anna has been doing good people saying good things about the stepmother; and when finally let Alex kill the stepmother At the time, she was pleading with Dad for Alex.

Denial: Denial refers to denial of unpleasant things that have happened, thinking that it has never happened. Avoiding psychological tension and anxiety by refusing to admit the painful facts is the simplest and most primitive psychological defense mechanism.

Projection: also known as external projection, it means that an individual transfers impulses, motives, attitudes and behaviors that he does not like or cannot bear but he has to others or surrounding things, and believes that others have such motives and behaviors.

Anna had always hoped that her boyfriend would help herself, and when her boyfriend told Anna that he had seen everything that happened on the night of the fire, Anna asked her boyfriend to meet on the edge of the cliff at 11 o'clock in the evening. During the quarrel and scuffle, her boyfriend slipped off the cliff. Instead of pulling her boyfriend, Anna killed him. As a punishment for her own moral anxiety, Anna was presented in a nightmare: her boyfriend yelling "catch me" is a manifestation of the situation at the time. When the police analyzed her boyfriend's death, Alex calmly faced the police's comfort and had to say that she once again suppressed the pain of losing her boyfriend. At the funeral of her boyfriend, Anna transferred her self-blame and sadness to her stepmother, speeding up her action to reveal the "ugly" true face of her stepmother.

When Anna was taken away by the police car again, she looked deeply across the window with her father before leaving, or she returned to the same mental hospital, or the same psychiatrist had a dialogue with Anna:

"Anna, what are you doing?"

"Do what you told me to do, and complete the unfinished things."

This is a sudden realization!

Following the camera, Anna tore off the nurse's stepmother's head from the family portrait. The truth came to light: It turned out that Anna was discharged from the hospital and returned to real life and re-completed what she hadn't done before-killing the nurse and nanny who was ambiguous with her father. Anna's desire in the spiritual world was initially realized in the objective world, and everything was really under her control.
Then, You are the next, Father!

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  • [first lines]

    Matt: I love you. And I have a condom.

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