Chapter 40 The Contest of Two Wills Part 2 (1)

1. Wonderful psychological analysis From the day K met the lawyer, K's psychoanalysis course began.There are two analyzes going on at the same time. One is the lawyer's analysis of ugliness.This kind of long-winded analysis has only one purpose, which is to teach K the way to look at the problem dialectically, so as not to deviate from the track of the law.The lawyer's thinking is this: Appeal is very important, and must be actively appealed; however, there will be no visible results of appeal, so don't have hope for it; no hope does not mean you can despair, K should see favorable conditions, this That is, the lawyer himself has close contact with the official, and sometimes can even influence the judgment of the official, which is especially beneficial to the appeal, which is equivalent to sitting at home and grasping the progress of the case; but this kind of relationship with the official is often nothing Use, because the final judgment is by chance.It is determined by factors that are impossible to know, and no one has seen the senior officials who made the final judgment; it is wrong to be decadent because you cannot see the results of your work. , but the news brought by lower-level officials shows that the case is progressing, and it is fine for the defendant as long as he does not give up, but it cannot be concluded from this that the judgment will be in his favor.The essence of this almost sophistry game is very serious psychoanalysis, and it is also the only treatment available to K as a patient.This analysis is fruitless when the will of the law is a contradiction.What one can pursue is analysis itself (pursued by action); once in this analysis, one becomes a slave to the Law, tossed between extremes of hope and despair.

On the surface, the meaning of a lawyer's work seems to be to keep K out of the law.What can endless analysis bring?Only pain and trouble, no progress. What K wants is progress, visible progress.But the progress itself happens to be invisible, it depends on K himself to make it, and even if it is made it is still invisible.And the preparatory work that drives progress is this lengthy analysis.The defendant clarified his extremely repressed situation through the lawyer's analysis, and then fought hard to create a new stage.This is what analytics really does.How can we not analyze it? "Is life an analysis? The lawyer's meticulous analysis shows a vivid picture of existence. Don't think that K doesn't understand at all, he is just avoiding it out of self-deceiving instinct. As soon as the lawyer opened his mouth, K felt his The lawyer sat in front of him without opening his mouth, and he also felt his pressure; so subconsciously, he caught the ball thrown by the lawyer. The lawyer was implying how unbearable this inhuman situation was. Fortunately, he can tell all this and convey it to K. And K can do one more thing, which he will do sooner or later. What is this thing? K will use actions to reveal the answer.

Another analysis is K's analysis of lawyers. K is not the type to be analyzed passively, so while the lawyer is analyzing him, he is also analyzing the lawyer.In his analysis, the lawyer left to K himself the answer to what K could do, and he expected that K would do that without knowing it.To analyze a lawyer is to actively analyze oneself, but K is not aware of this.He thought that analyzing himself was writing a complaint, and he felt that the complaint could not be written.Whether consciously or not, K started his own active analysis through the analysis of the lawyer in this way.That's what the lawyer asked him to do.From K's point of view, besides being poor-mouthed, a lawyer just sits there silently and avoids questions, or teaches him a lesson, ridicules his ignorance, and treats him like a child. As soon as K asked about the case, he used his sophistry to perfunctory, never intending to take substantive steps to advance the case, only emphasizing the difficulties and the ineffectiveness of human actions on the case.All of this is clearly due to his illness and incompetence, which made him afraid to fight the court, so that K, the defendant, had to be implicated by it and wait for the punishment to come.Since lawyers are so useless to his case, why doesn't he take action to push his case himself?This is the conclusion of K's analysis.Then he set to work. K's above analysis is just a rational analysis, and there is a flow of consciousness lurking underneath, which implies another point of view: maybe the lawyer is not incompetent, it is K's case itself that makes him only take this kind of manner?Perhaps he is not afraid to fight the court, but can only delay in this roundabout way?Maybe if K. did act, it would really lead to the destruction that the lawyer predicted?But how can he willingly let others slaughter him?No, he can't!Even if the case is really as serious as the lawyer hinted, he will fight to the death and never give up.Rational analysis is contrary to subconscious comprehension, but the conclusion is the same, and they all take actions to advance the case.In the process of implementation, traces of his subconscious influence can be seen.That influence flickered faintly under the suppression of reason, and did not emerge until K took extreme actions.

The lawyer's analysis of K motivates K to analyze the lawyer in turn.After all, besides analyzing lawyers, what other effective analysis can K have?The analysis of lawyers will inevitably produce the impulse to break through, which is also expected by lawyers.Lawyers are all over it.He was waiting, not for the court's decision, but for K's awakening. K didn't know who he was intellectually, but subconsciously he figured out who he was and what he wanted from him, and he did it without knowing it.The actions he takes are subconscious actions under the premise of self-deception, that is to say, he is always realizing himself in chaos.

To write a complaint is to symbolize the incompleteness of analysis, and all one can do is to feel this incompleteness.Whenever K sat down to think about the complaint, whenever he wanted to write, he found it impossible to start, and he was extremely painful.The final sea of ​​repentance cannot be written on paper, it is an extremely profound artistic conception, which is everywhere and always.Therefore, such a complaint can only be a blank sheet of paper, but it is by no means a blank sheet of paper; the pain and troubles are real, and the time and place are vivid. Every day K lives, he has to carry this burden on his back for a day.Even if he did give up his job and reduce his personal life to the bare minimum, the burden would not be lessened.That kind of infinity squeezed him, and he had to fight to find a way out.So K can't write the complaint, but he can analyze the lawyer, who is specific and analyzable.The breakthroughs that result from this analysis and analysis are his appeals.

2. The fatal test The complaint could not be written, and after suffering for a long time, Fa sent a new envoy to talk to K.He is a factory owner, under the guise of doing business, but in fact he has other plans.He knew that K was in a desperate situation, and he brought K a glimmer of hope, because the analysis could not be interrupted, and it had to develop to a higher stage.The life-saving straw offered by the factory owner was immediately seized by K. He turned off all his daily work and rushed to the place. K's savior is an unidentified painter, who is said to work for the court, and the painter's residence illustrates his special status.The closer people are to the Fa, the more dire their situation will be.This was the case in the small room in the painter's high attic.It was a rat's nest in the slums. The air in the small cage-like room was thin, and the dust made it difficult to breathe. The rat-like disabled girls walked around the house all day, not giving people a moment of peace.It is in this place that the painter paints, according to the decree of the law, the fantasy of the law, which he himself does not quite grasp.Since he had dealt with the law all day long, the painter was already as proficient in law as the judicial officers, so he became interested in K's case as soon as he heard it, and such cases were the material for his creation.He sent the signal to K. through the factory owner, and he knew that the cornered man would come to him.So when the bewildered K appeared in front of him, he couldn't help but laugh.After teasing K well, the painter did not forget the task that Fa gave him.This task is to explain the law to K in depth, explain the situation as a defendant, and what the defendant can do.

The painter first wants K to confirm his innocence, that is to say, to confirm that he is a person who knows the existence of the law, but does not know what the law is, and is determined to deceive himself to the end.Such people are the material, or prey, of the painter.After confirming the above fundamental things, he can analyze K to his heart's content.He said he could set K free by himself.The "liberation" he refers to is a term in the legal sense, but it is misunderstood as a secular meaning by K's ears.Then he eloquently and painstakingly described to K the method and content of liberation, and he himself also obtained great pleasure from the description.His description looks like a trap, but it is actually a very serious, legal process mode, just like the lawyer's narrative mode.What is liberation?Relief is the defendant's struggle in the Quaker gap of the law; whichever option the defendant chooses, they serve the same function.Man's freedom is the freedom to wear clothes, and the freedom to struggle.The two methods of liberation provided by the law will lead to the strengthening of K's connection with the law, so that he will be more firmly controlled by the law and become a real caged bird. This is one aspect.On the other hand, in these two modes, the Fa forces people to display their supernatural powers and engage in "behind the scenes activities" (subconscious activities) to maximize their personal potential.Wherever one is conscious of control, the outlook is dark; whenever one engages in creative activity, the outlook is bright.The ebb and flow of these two wills is the embodiment of the eternal contradiction.In this contest-like analysis, K, who has nowhere to escape, is always clinging to the bright side, while the painter like Hades is clinging to the dark side; maybe both sides are acting, but this scene is fatal, and this seriousness is also very serious. horrifying.

What does K himself gain from the analysis?Why did he want to leave immediately from the beginning to the end, but he seemed to be attracted by a magnet from the beginning to the end, unable to move?This kind of analysis is what he subconsciously needs.After so many disastrous events, K, who has come to where he is today, must rely on this strong stimulus to continue this revolution in Leiter's soul.Since he committed himself to the French Open, every spontaneous and blind action of his has contained his self-awareness, and thus has been connected with the rules of the law.He escaped from the bank and ran to the painter, because his mode of self-help was to be renewed in the painter, because the law used its infinity, its emptiness tormented him terribly, and the solution could only be to go to Find it in the law itself.The painter's answer is hidden deep in his words, and K, who has a worldly head, is completely destroyed by his words.This is not a bad thing, the painter just wants to destroy his rational defense and let K overcome his own worldliness to save him.In the process of rebirth, K's total defeat means the growth and strength of the new creature in the soul.It can be said that he obtained nourishment for growth from the analysis of death. K's external behavior also fully hinted at this inner war: at the beginning, he planned to find the painter as soon as possible, ask him a few questions, and then leave immediately; The question came, and after the discussion was over, time had passed for a long time; finally getting to the point, I just wanted to get to the bottom of it quickly, and then walk, but I didn’t expect that the point was not clear in a few words, and I had to explain the entire judicial system to K Once again, he couldn't go anymore; when the painter's torment was finally over, he was really exhausted and his whole body fell apart, and at this time he actually "still hesitated" and hadn't left; Art was discussed, and he listened patiently to his strange opinion, and finally opened the door to leave.All this shows that what K wants is not what he planned in his head.What he wanted was a mystery, and he lingered in the painter's attic just to wait there to see the solution of the mystery.Of course he didn't know that he couldn't wait for that moment, because the riddle could only be solved by his own actions.However, "waiting" has shown the existence of mystery and the power of irrationality.As the savior of the soul, the painter once again tested the tension of the soul, and K proved himself a qualified defendant in the test.

3. Art and Law Art is to reproduce the Fa, but unfortunately the Fa cannot be grasped concretely, it is a gust of wind, a ray of light, people can feel it but cannot grasp it.But ambitious artists are not reconciled. They have started this kind of attempt since ancient times and have been working hard until today.Why do they hold such hope and enthusiasm?This is determined by the nature of the law itself.Law turns life into art.The law embodies true equality and universality, and it permeates every capillary of life, from the most humble to the most noble, all are permeated with its spirit.Because of the Fa in his heart, and because he feels the light of the Fa everywhere in his humble daily life, the artist cannot suppress the impulse of inner inspiration, and only painting is his only way out.Such a depiction is almost impossible, tantamount to using ethereal to compare vulgarity, and using absurdity to pretend to be truth.In this kind of work the artist has to fly over great chasms.Fortunately, the tyranny or unity of the law gave the artist support, and the artist became confident and conceited, because once he was employed by the law, there was nothing he could not describe.What he uses is secular materials, and what he expresses are all things other than the secular world; he can use this method to develop his imagination about the law endlessly.Therefore, Min can see that completely consistent will in all the paintings of the painter.That is the artistic conception after flying across the huge gap, the profound artistic conception of the Fa, although bright and gloomy, comes from a strong heart.

Portraits of law enforcement officers are the process by which painters turn decay into magic.The junior judges are all sleazy fellows, with no good looks and no manners.They have only one thing to be proud of, and that is that they are enforcers, with legal matters on their minds.This event erased all the gloom in their lives and made them live in a halo.When painters depict them, they always depict the law; thus, on the painting, the mundane retreats, and all things related to the law appear, endowed with exciting and new meanings.Because of K's special relationship with Fa, he felt a sense of déjà vu when he saw this kind of paintings, and subconsciously knew what they were talking about.

Why do artists persevere in depicting law?Of course, in order to live in their special way, which is to dream of heaven in hell.Only this way can bring them real pleasure.Now we understand why the painter enjoyed himself so much in that filthy, suffocating little attic.Had he been thrown into the crowd below, he would have fainted, for there was no air for him to breathe.Artists, too, must have come out of the crowd a long time ago, and were employed by the Law; the longer the Law employed them, the more unbearable the world became, and since it was impossible to separate themselves from the world, they had to live in lofty attics, In order to get closer to the Fa, and to connect the two poles.