Although the film Dr. Edward is an old film of the last century, I still think it is an immortal masterpiece in the film after watching it for decades. Its storyline, actors, interpretation of love and methods of psychological analysis and psychotherapy for patients are all classics.
The film is based on a sentence about psychoanalysis: "Psychoanalysis is a method of modern science to deal with the emotional problems of healthy people. The analyst only asks to guide the patient to tell his hidden problems and let him open his heart. Once the complex around the patient is revealed and explained, the pain and confusion of the patient will disappear. " There is also a famous saying by Shakespeare, "The devil who loses his mind will be expelled from the human soul." It shows that this will be a story about psychoanalysis always implementing Freud's theory.
At the beginning of the film, the young and handsome "Dr. Edward" appeared, which made everyone feel that his age and qualifications did not match. The facts are indeed as described in the following story. Peterson, a beautiful psychologist who is committed to academics, fell in love with this "Dr. Edward" at first sight, and soon they fell in love. With the development of the story, Peterson gradually discovers that "Dr. Edward" is not the real Dr. Edward, and his series of mental behaviors make the heroine realize that this "Dr. Edward" is just an amnesiac J.B who is troubled by some terrible things, which makes the heroine shudder, but the power of love is enormous, and the heroine is determined to do her best to save her sweetheart.
Stories are always so dramatic. The female secretary of Dr. Edward who arrived the next day accused him of murdering Dr. Edward. Peterson fled with J.B. for love, and helped J. B to regain consciousness on the way to escape. Under the close search of the police, Peterson, helpless, took J.B. to Alex's home. The kind old man took them in and helped his students to treat J.B.' s disease together.
The snow and bright lights outside will strongly affect J.B.' s mood. He often dreams of these terrible things in his dreams. Freud believed that people have two psychological functions-the primary process represented by dreaming and the secondary process represented by daily lucid thinking. The former is characterized by concentration, displacement and symbol, and has no scruples about the norms of time and space, and relieves instinctive impulses by satisfying the illusion of desire during sleep; The latter is a secondary process, which strictly follows grammar and formal logic. Dreaming means that the original desire of desperately seeking illusion satisfaction under repression has not disappeared, so fundamentally speaking, dreaming is a mental symptom. So, from the dream, gradually, the master and the apprentice found the root of the disease. If the whole story is clarified and the nightmare complex is solved, the disease will be alleviated or even cured.
After the treatment, J.B. told his dream. In order to make J.B. have a complete nightmare, Peterson went to the ski resort with him. At their critical moment, J.B. finally remembered the painful memories of his childhood. It turned out that J.B. was playing with his younger brother when he was very young, and accidentally pushed his younger brother off the roof and died. It was a cold winter with heavy snow. Although it was only an accident, the damage it caused to J.B.' s young mind was extremely shocking and intense, and the nightmare began to accompany him. When Dr. Edward was shot, some special circumstances, such as snow and white light, touched his subconscious, which was too consistent with his experience in that year, so J.B. thought he was the murderer in the chaos. In order to escape the law, J.B. began to play the role of Dr. Edward. In fact, J.B. really couldn't get rid of such great mental pressure, which eventually led to the whole story.
The police found Dr. Edward's body according to the clue provided by J. B., but they found bullets from the body. J.b. still can't get rid of the murder charge. Peterson ran around in vain for J.B. and had to go back to the hospital. However, what I didn't expect was that the truth of the story gradually surfaced because of a slip of the tongue by Dr. Mo Qingsen. It turned out that the real murderer was Dr. Moqingsen. After his plot was exposed, his mind had completely collapsed. In fact, this is a clear choice, because such a mental burden, even if he can live, will be overwhelmed.
After watching this psychoanalytic film Dr. Edward, what impressed me the most was Love and Intuition. Although the film is telling people the basic theory of Freud's psychoanalysis, my feeling is that it is "love and intuition" to finally understand the darkness in the depths of the soul, inspire the lost memory of Dr. Edward, and heal the multiple wounds that plague him, including manslaughter of his brother, war, plane crash, witnessing murder, etc. , help solve the murder.
The handsome "fake doctor Edward" came to take over the post of dean, which undoubtedly brought visual impact to the audience and touched the hearts of the characters in the play. The old dean has ulterior motives, the male doctor is full of jealousy, the heroine seed of love, and so on.
In fact, the hero lost his memory because of the stimulation of Dr. Edward's murder. Under the action of mental defense mechanism, he imagined himself as Dr. Edward's doctor. At first, Edward, a young fake doctor, was personable and covered with his personality charm, which could touch the hearts of the opposite sex. So the hero and heroine fell in love soon.
However, in the subsequent specific work, in contact with the hero, and in response to some scenes, such as seeing a quilt, the appearance of fake Edward made the heroine aware of the abnormality and infer the fake identity of the hero. But this did not affect her love for "Dr. Edward" at all. In the words of Alex Sr, the heroine's teacher, "A woman may be the best psychoanalyst, but once she falls in love, she may be a typical patient." In love, self gives way to broadness and altruism, and thinking gives way to feeling and intuition. It is love that contributes to the most wonderful psychological analysis of the heroine's career! From this, we should be able to realize that love is the best way to heal mental trauma and improve life. In love, closed hearts can be opened one by one. Love here is more than love.
Although this film shows an oversimplified interpretation of psychoanalysis, Dr. Edward is still an excellent work expressing Freud's theory. 1944 this film has already reflected some behaviorism colors, conveyed positive and negative dialectical thinking, and later sprouted humanistic consciousness. As a professional psychological counselor, we should pay attention to emotions and intuition, which are also factors that affect the success of counseling. As everyone, we should also dare to face love, affection, friendship and hometown.