The film Dr. Edward begins with a withered branch in the cold wind, and a sentence about psychoanalysis is that psychoanalysis is a modern scientific method 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 dramatic story about psychoanalysis that implements Freud's theory.
One of the most common Freudian cases leads to the heroine of the film-psychologist Peterson in a psychiatric sanatorium, who is a beautiful woman who concentrates on academics. This hospital was originally headed by Dr. Mo Qingsen, and now it will be taken over by Dr. Edward, a famous doctor of medicine. Peterson is one of Dr. Edward's admirers. Although the new doctor Edward is handsome, he seems a little too young. He and Peterson soon fell in love with each other. But Peterson immediately discovered that he was not really Dr. Edward, but an amnesiac J. B. who was troubled by terrible things. The next day, Dr. Edward's female secretary accused him of murdering Dr. Edward Peterson found the escaped J.B. and tried to help him recall the truth hidden in his memory through psychoanalysis. The police chased them to the home of Peterson's teacher Alex, and the kind old man took them in and helped Peterson treat J.B.
The patient's subconscious state is the most important part of psychological analysis. J.B. couldn't calmly face the two parallel straight lines on Peterson's clothes, and even she mentioned that the irregular arc lane in the nursing home swimming pool would make him "feel irritable and tired ..." This disease is very serious. This reminds Peterson of a professor she studied before. The professor had a similar situation with J.B. He couldn't give a lecture in the lecture hall, "because it would make him feel surrounded by danger." The reason for this mental tension must be that it was deeply stimulated by some terrible thing or scene, and then left a lingering shadow in my heart.
Let's take a look at Mr. Gans' case study first. In fact, Mr. Ganz didn't want to come to Peterson for psychotherapy. He can't tell his true feelings. "... you can't see that I'm haunted by hallucinations, but my crime is real ... I killed my father! I am willing to be punished as I deserve. "Mr. Ganz's subconscious wrong feelings controlled his spiritual world, making his mind suffer from the crime of killing his father, and he has been in fear.
Peterson patiently helped Mr. Ganz analyze and enlighten him. She thinks that some wrong ideas control Mr. Ganz's consciousness and lead to his hallucinations. In a sense, people often feel guilty about what they didn't do. This situation can be traced back to their childhood. For example, a child often wants something terrible to happen to someone he doesn't like. However, when something really happens to those people, children will believe that he is the culprit, which is the cause of the crime complex. In fact, it was just a child's nightmare, all of which never happened, and those sins were not real.
J.b.' s illness is similar to that of Mr. Gans. Not only the lines make him nervous, but even the snow and bright light outside the house will make him fall into a vague but terrible memory. His memory is like a bottomless abyss, just like anything you can't get by looking in the mirror. Some horrible things that he doesn't want to remember will always cause an illusion in his mind that seems to be a fait accompli-he killed Dr. Edward
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. J.B. often dreams that there are eyes of different sizes everywhere, and the reason for this mental tension is a painful experience in his childhood. If a person suffered trauma many years ago, as long as the real situation can be close to the emotional source of the subconscious, then the experience of these years will be as fresh as the recent feeling. Just because memories are gradually forgotten and impressions are weakened emotionally because of time, we will say that they are the result of the memory traces of "time" in psychology. To completely eliminate the influence of J.B.' s mental shadow, we can't let him continue to immerse himself in illness. So be sure to let him know why those feelings are not good for him, how those horrible things that hurt him happen, make clear the ins and outs, and untie those nightmare complexes, and the symptoms will be alleviated or even healed.
After being induced, J.B. told his dream. Master and apprentice analyzed that the murder happened when Dr. Edward was skiing with him. In order to make J.B. a complete nightmare, Peterson came to the ski resort with him. At their critical moment, J.B. finally recalled his childhood, got rid of his criminal complex, and remembered the situation when Dr. Edward had an accident. It turned out that J.B. was playing with his little brother when he was very young, and accidentally pushed his little 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. Since then, nightmares have been with him, making him suffer from self-condemnation and torture in his mind, which has been affecting his whole childhood, even his youth. Therefore, when he was skiing with Dr. Edward and Dr. Edward was suddenly shot, the real scene-snow, white light, snowboarding and straight snow trails (lines) approached the emotional source of his subconscious, and his childhood experience was as fresh as his immediate feelings. So, at that moment, his consciousness was completely confused, and he "definitely" thought he was the murderer of Dr. Edward. In order to escape "guilt", J.B. began to play the role of Dr. Edward. However, in fact, he still can't get rid of those terrible situations in his subconscious. Until he came to the psychiatric nursing home and met the beautiful and intelligent Peterson.
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. Dr. Moqingsen's slip of the tongue made Peterson wake up from a dream and contacted J.B.' s dream. The whole case finally came to a conclusion. It turned out that the real murderer was Dr. Moqingsen. Dr. Mo Qingsen has worked in the hospital for 20 years, and everything here has reached its present development scale through his painstaking management. So he can't accept the fact that he retired from his "own industry" replaced by others. Only by killing Dr. Edward can he keep the position of hospital director. So he shot Dr. Edward and J. B. from behind while skiing. Faced with the revelation of the plot, Mo Qingsen was unable to shoot Peterson and shot himself in despair.
Dr. Edward was shot in 1945, and psychoanalysis was the "golden pavilion" in the minds of all western filmmakers and movie audiences at that time. People are eager for it to relieve the pressure of war and the guilt of the murderer. "Dr. Edward" constitutes a broken corner of the "Golden Pavilion". Although from a modern point of view, Dr. Edward is always a loser in this respect-but this is a classic loser.