Chapter 55 Section 2 Games That Satisfy the Human Mind

A patient told his psychiatrist that he was troubled by his nightmares. "What did you dream about?" "Every time I dream that there are five stunning beauties rushing towards me. I try my best to block their approach with both hands." "Then how can I help you?" "Please break my hands in my dream." The patient said eagerly. The meaning of a dream is like an onion A patient of mine named Annie told me about a dream.In her dream, she stabbed a man in the crowd with a pair of scissors. When her scissors pierced the man's eye, she woke up. After waking up, she didn't feel any discomfort. A very interesting dream.She kept chewing on this strange dream, not knowing what it meant.

I asked her to analyze the meaning of the dream herself.This is the basic approach to dream analysis in psychotherapy: the dreamer is always left to interpret his or her dream, and the therapist comes in at the end to summarize it.Annie said that this represented his inner hatred for men, and she wanted to use scissors as a weapon to assassinate men. Annie's explanation is on the most immediate level.The meaning of a dream is like an onion, peeled away layer by layer, and there are many layers of meaning inside.The scissors and the man's eyes are the two main images in Annie's dream, and it is on these two images that the analysis of the dream begins.

Scissors are composed of two separate knives, and their functions are to clamp, cut, stab, and cut.When the scissors are separated, the engulfing archetype formed by the left and right blades can be a symbol of the female vagina.When the scissors are closed, the two round handles of the scissors and the protruding blade body are again a symbol of the male phallus.The eye can also be seen as a cave covered by two opposite membranes, which is the symbol of the vagina; and the inspection and search function of the eye is consistent with the aggressive image of the male penis. Anne herself was a virgin.A beautiful girl in a cultural background like the United States is still a virgin at the age of 25, which is not something to brag about.Annie's inner desire for sex and the restraint of virgin taboos put her in an extremely contradictory and conflicting state of mind.Anne herself explained that the act of stabbing a man's eye with scissors meant her hatred of men.This explanation is superficial and safe, but there should be other meanings hidden under this explanation.

When scissors are used as stabs, the image of scissors may represent the male phallus, and the eye may become a symbol of the female vagina.Because of the preciousness and fragility of the eyes, it is actually impossible for the eyes to withstand a pair of scissors.When the eye is pierced by a pair of scissors, the eye must be destroyed, so the image of scissors piercing the eye here can be interpreted as the situation where Anne's hymen was pierced when she longed for the first sexual intercourse.On this level, the scissors piercing the eye refers to Anne's subconscious desire to break her virginal taboo.

The cutting function of the scissors can also be used as the castration of the male penis, so the underlying meaning of piercing the eyes with scissors can also be the castration of men with scissors.Based on Anne's irresolvable hatred of men, castration of men is obviously an effective way to fully vent her resentment. When we have traveled far in the subconscious, sometimes we look back and find that the symbolic meaning on the surface cannot be ignored.The state of the eye can be a stern watch, an attentive gaze, and a loving leer.The scissors can be closed or open. The image of "scissors to eyes" can mean: prohibiting the other party's surveillance or peeping, or opening a bridge of spiritual communication with the other party.

On a ferry, sitting a monk and a young woman.The young woman was so attractive that the monk couldn't help but take a few more glances.Unexpectedly, the young woman was so hot that she couldn't bear the monk's glance at her.So, he slapped him with a slap, until the monk's eyes were full of gold stars.The monk could only admit that he was unlucky, so he closed his eyes. Unexpectedly, the young woman slapped the monk again. The monk shouted: "I have closed my eyes, why are you still beating me?" "Close your eyes and think more fiercely." Although the young woman's words were domineering, they also hit the point.

Violence and sex are two major themes of inner human drives.Violence is mainly manifested as the encroachment, enslavement or even killing of another individual by one individual.And sex is mainly manifested as an individual's fusion, compatibility and even submission to another individual.A man who is full of violence and even murderous can be caught in front of a charming but defenseless beauty. This is the so-called "hero is saddened by beauty".When a person brings violence into sex, that is sexual sadism, and the opposite extreme is sexual masochism. Freud's insistence on the centrality of the libido to the sexual instinct caused him to part ways with some of his most important disciples.Freud was so persistent because he found in clinical practice that his patients' dreams were almost always sexual.After many years of analyzing dreams of all kinds, I cannot but admit the importance of the theme of sex in dreams.From this I also understood why Freud was so steadfast in his great discovery that sex is the source of all human psychic drive.

One of my patients, Shanter, a tall, fat black man, told me one day of a dream.In his dream, he was flying a helicopter and circling over a city.When he flew to a crowded square, he took out a machine gun and aimed at the crowd in the square, regardless of gender, age or age. "How did you feel at the time?" I wanted to know how he felt about such a brutal killing. "It feels good." Shante smiled silly. "So how did you feel when you woke up?" I pressed on. "It feels good." Shante still smiled foolishly. I know that Sander is not an idiot or imbecile, and he must know the meaning of my question, but he is still very indifferent to the obvious characteristics of his behavior that violates human morality.

"Did you take into account that there were women and children in the crowd when you machine-gunned the crowd?" "I don't care, I just feel happy doing that." Shante smiled silly again. "You don't care about the individual in the crowd, you just have fun shooting the crowd, right?" "right!" "Then it means that you have some degree of hatred for the human race." "Well, I don't know." "I don't think you can hate human beings as a whole. You actually have a deep hatred for something in human beings."

"Well, I don't know, maybe." Shante hesitated: "What would it be?" "Most likely it was a hatred caused by a traumatic childhood." I pinpointed the crux of his problem. "When I was 9 years old, I accidentally saw an event that affected my whole life later on." Sander sighed: "You know, I saw my brother and my mother doing that on the bed." "How did you feel then?" "Hate, you know, I don't dare to tell anyone yet, I can only hold the hatred in my heart." "What do you hate?" I asked him this seemingly inexplicable question abruptly.

"Hate what? I hate my brother why can he do that?" "Usually people's first reaction to things like this is shame and then hate. Your first reaction seems to be hate, you hate your brother." "Of course I'm ashamed too." "Shame after hate, right?" I seem to be playing with words, but I actually have a deep meaning. "I hated my brother to death. I fought against him all the time. I wanted to strangle him." "Because he did something you wanted to do but didn't dare to do, and after he did it, it became something you wanted to do but couldn't do." I pointed out Shante's inner thoughts, which is A little risky psychoanalysis, but at the time, I was 90% sure. Shan Te fell into a long silence, he looked up at me, and an embarrassed smile flashed on the corner of his mouth. "You mean that I also have that kind of thinking deep down in my heart?" Sander's answer means that he agrees with my analysis. "I guess that doesn't have to be deep down?" My analysis became aggressive. "Hey!" Shante suddenly grinned, and I laughed too. "Now, I can analyze the meaning of your dream." I am very happy to have found a breakthrough: "You have been troubled by the incest complex in your heart with your mother in the past. Human beings have a taboo on incest, so you have been in this You struggled with this taboo and hatred for your brother. Your brother's sexual relationship with your mother actually violated the incest taboo, which you couldn't, so in the competition with your brother, you always feel that you is a loser. To get out of your predicament, you have two options: destroy your brother and put yourself in his place. The other possibility is to destroy human morality and legalize the incest in you , Therefore, you chose the method of slaughtering human beings in your dream. In fact, you don’t want to slaughter human flesh, what you want to slaughter is human ethics.” "I really didn't expect it to be so deep, but it still sounds reasonable." Shante agreed with my analysis.The interpretation of such dreams is based on the understanding of the inner conflict complex of the dreamer.What I want to mention here is that when I proudly told my dream analysis to my mentor Dr. Sweeney at the Fifth Avenue Psychotherapy Center in New York, he smiled slightly and said, "You don't understand the meaning of that dream." The analysis only grasped the tip of the iceberg. Dreams are actually a symbolic projection of the inner state, which is holistic. You can get a certain conclusion from a certain angle; Another conclusion may be drawn." Then I realized that the analysis of dreams is just a game to satisfy the human mind.