If love is a pair of devil angels in essence, then the changeability of love is the devil that makes people float restlessly, and the attraction of love is the angel that makes people fall in love with. In this paper, I will talk about the psychodynamics of the change and invariance of emotion through the TV play Brothers.
Summary of the story of Brothers: Shi Jin (played by Zhou Xiaobin) and Bi Fulin (played by Liu Wei) are good brothers since childhood, and Bi Fulin's father is Shi Jin's teacher. The garage in charge of Bi Fulin is closing down frequently, and the brothers are doing their own thing. The brothers are on the food and clothing line except Du Pang, who became rich. When Shi Jin left the factory to drive a taxi, he encountered difficulties, and Bi Fulin helped him through the difficulties. When Shi Jin learned that Bi Fulin was struggling to raise 300000 yuan, he took the initiative to help him raise funds. Shi Jin doesn't ask Bi Fulin what he is doing to raise money for. He just wants to raise money for him. For this reason, he encountered: he could not borrow money from his rich friends, but he managed to borrow little by little from his poor friends, and with the savings of his family and parents, he raised 300000 yuan for Bi Fulin. Unexpectedly, Bi Fulin ignored his brotherhood, left his wife and children and his elderly and sick father, and ran to his mistress with money. After Shi Jin learned of Bi Fulin's injustice, he still helped Bi Fulin as always - borrowing, repaying, caring for his father in hospital, helping his hard working wife and children. In this process, Shi Jin experiences conflict and emotional crisis with his wife Xi Mei (played by Yuan Li), and disputes and entanglements with friends. But the end of the story is a happy ending: Bi Fulin was punished as he should have been, and he also turned over a new leaf. Shi Jinyi's unrelenting love and loyalty moved all his relatives and friends, resolved the contradiction, and successfully saved the auto repair factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
"Brothers" covers the love, family, friendship, and marital relationship in the world, highlighting the brotherly complex: loyalty. I wonder why brotherhood has the magic of transcendence in all the feelings in the world? From the emotional orientation and changes of the characters in the play, we can see that when feeling is trapped, there are two emotional reactions, one is emotional subversion, the other is emotional retention. The former is love change, and its motive is inhumanity, while the latter is unchangeable love, and its motive is righteousness. Then why did Bi Fulin betray his wife and betray his brother? Why did Shi Jin focus on brotherhood when family love conflicts with brotherhood, and why should he be loyal to his perfidious brothers?
Among these two people, Bi Fulin is just a foil (few of his appearances), and the director may use him to set off Shi Jin, an extraordinary figure. However, Bi Fulin has something extraordinary about him. He is also a man of love and righteousness, but he can't resist the temptation of emotion. Money will go bad. He is extraordinary in his love. He is so unforgiving: 1) Carrying money is to escape with the loans of his poor brothers; 2) Regardless of the difficulties of brothers, it is unjust to cause brothers' family conflicts and emotional crisis; 3) Betraying a good wife and eloping a mistress is disloyal; 4) It is unfilial and immoral to abandon an old father and a young child.
A man who has friends, wife and children, and status, why has his love changed to such an extent, we secular understand that he is obsessed with the devil. But this is just a kind of foolish consolation, which can't explain the motivation of such people in reality. After all, Bi Fulin is a man who pursues emotions. His subversive change of heart. From the perspective of psychodynamics, behind his betrayal of a good wife and elopement of his lover, there must be the drive of his unconscious resentment or Oedipus complex, that is, either there are factors at home that drive him to rebel, such as a certain trait in his wife (strong or controlled like a strict mother) It touches on the accused complex he wants to avoid, because only the controlled environment will encourage people to escape; Either there is a heterosexual person outside his home who matches his ideal mother, and he feels that he can fully satisfy his hidden feelings of Oedipus, thus falling into the vortex of passionate love. When a person has the condition to satisfy the complex in his heart, he loses his reason and judgment.
From the perspective of human nature, people are emotional animals. When people are hungry for emotion, it is not his bad conscience but just the expression of hunger. But the sociality of human beings tells us that human beings cannot satisfy their desires at will. No matter how profound the reasons for your desires and the impulses not controlled by the will, as long as the process or results of your satisfaction hurt the feelings of others, you must be responsible. The cost may be the condemnation of good intentions, or the loss of other relationships or interests... This can be said to be the cost of social morality. Bi Fulin, who neglects reason and responsibility because of his complex, suffers a lot while harming his friends because of his satisfaction complex. It is because he has suffered so much that he can say that his betrayal of his wife and love change of his friends are the subsidiary results of his satisfaction of lust. In life, there are many Bi Fulin who are controlled by the unconscious complex and do not know it. They are unconsciously changed because of the complex and become ruthless because of the satisfaction complex.
People's irrational behavior driven by complex, its appearance is heartless, but its essence is lack of emotion. Bi Fulin's change of feelings implies that it is not terrible for people to have complex, but it is terrible to lose family, friendship, self-esteem and other feelings because of complex.
Jin Lian (played by Juanzi), Bi Fulin's wife, not only did not abandon him because of Bi Fulin's love affair, but took the responsibility of paying off his debts for him, which was motivated by gratitude to Shi Jin and other friends for their kindness and righteousness.
People will respect those who value love and righteousness, but will you respect those who insist on giving grace to unjust people? The TV play depicts Shi Jin, who wants to be loyal and unjust at the expense of hurting the relationship between husband and wife. It makes people feel indescribable after watching him. I don't know whether he is admiring or indignant, moved or indifferent. But life is like this. It is full of unreasonable people. Any unreasonable thing has its understandable reason.
If you ask, why did Shi Jin choose brotherhood in all kinds of emotional conflicts, and why did he stick to loyalty to the treacherous Bi Fulin? We quoted a passage from Shi Jin as an explanation. He said at the end of the TV play: "In my life, I used to do everything possible to think about others. As long as others were better and happy, I would feel comfortable. I always treat ten people as good, and one person is good to me, but that's not the case. I have few friends, but there are some who are difficult for me and harm me. But, as always, I must be worthy of my friends! Along the way, I deeply felt two words: I should thank my friends who understand me and support me, as well as those who have embarrassed and entrapped me for my career and love, and my sense of achievement. " The latter sentence not only reflects the intention of the director, but also reveals the truth that heroes can only appear when suffering and the weak are together. Philosophers also tell us that where there is no love, there is no hate, there is no love? The reason why there is greatness is because of the existence of insignificance.
At best, Shi Jin is obsessed with brotherhood, but not with love and justice. If he values feelings and justice, he should pay attention to justice: punish his friends' unjust acts, rather than blindly support the unjust people. This infatuation seems to be more than a drop of grace to repay each other, and closer to the Bible's "love your enemy". But I don't think Shi Jin is so great. I just feel that such a person can do things that ordinary people can't do. It's just because he has an unusual complex. In other words, while Shi Jin treats the unjust Bi Fulin with benevolence and righteousness, he also harms the feelings of his family. This is not a kind of benevolence and righteousness in itself, but a kind of foolish loyalty, which only shows that he is driven by some subconscious power, which comes from his brotherhood complex and his desire to save. The Psychodynamic Society believes that his obsession with serving others is actually fulfilling his unconscious desire to help.
Lei Feng is just like that. If his behavior has noble motives, it is more like a kind of eulogy, reflecting the political needs of the eulogist.
People like Lei Feng in life, no matter what happens to the helped, their feelings of helping others will not change; In reality, people like Shi Jin will never change their loyalty no matter what their friends are scheming or entrapment, which means that they always have the motivation to support their loyalty. In depth psychoanalysis, a certain emotion of a person can stand firm and unchangeable in a subversive situation, but only the stubborn unconscious complex of a person can defend it. Complex always drives people to do some unusual, absurd or shocking things automatically and spontaneously with powerful energy.
Loyalty or foolish loyalty, if in the same situation, there are different emotional reactions due to different personalities and complexes of people. Xi Mei, Shi Jin's wife, is frank, upright and capable. When she feels that her brotherhood has been framed, she will punish the perpetrators because she is sincere and upright. She is also kind and righteous, but she is willing to help those who need help and is hostile to those who are unjust. This is the normal justice. Only Shi Jin, whose loyalty is unprecedented, can keep his feelings alive when his friends change. The three kingdoms' Taoyuan became friends three times. Zhang Fei also dueled with Guan Yu because he "defected" to Cao Cao. Guan Yu also thought that Liu Bei was addicted to wine and sex in the State of Wu and wanted to break off with him. He can be called a loyal person who has been popular for thousands of years. He would also recover his loyalty when his brother changed. What kind of loyalty is Shi Jin's loyalty? Is the loyalty of "loving your enemy" the true loyalty?
As a literary and artistic work, the moral always wants to convey a noble, an ideal, a kind of selflessness and chivalry lost in the world. Because selflessness and chivalry can save people's fallen souls. From a psychological point of view, I think that Shi Jin will not change his loyalty to himself no matter how his friends change their feelings, revealing his orientation of striving for perfection: (Bi Fulin is his own embodiment) He cannot tolerate his brother's fall, just as he does not allow himself to be bad, he must save his brother, otherwise he will suffer from the pain of fall or imperfection. This also reveals his narcissism and bigotry of "no matter what others do, I am faithful".
In reality, many paranoia are the people who can stick to the "one track" in the complex and ever-changing world, and often it is the same kind of paranoia that has achieved things that ordinary people cannot do. Shi Jin is not a noble person, but just a kind of paranoid person among ordinary people. paranoia is a kind of character structure, with a super ideal self or narcissistic complex inside, which is the core driving force for them to keep certain emotions unchanged.
It can be said that the change of emotion often makes people's rationality lose to sensibility. Emotion can conquer rationality itself, and it can also see the transcendence of emotion. The strength behind the changes and invariance are all the strong and unyielding complex.
