Psychoanalysis of Surprise Vision

Psychoanalysis has long nourished literary and artistic creation. In fact, a large number of detailed eggs in Wanda's Vision are not groundless, and all of them correspond to Wanda's deep consciousness. This paper tries to analyze the first two strange episodes of Wanda's Vision from the perspective of psychoanalysis.

Wanda is a tragic figure who suffered many devastating blows in MCU. He lost his parents when he was a child, was locked up for human experiments, and was almost used to destroy his hometown, lost his brother on the battlefield, and then lost his beloved. After losing everything, he lost his life.

Pathology shows that people with traumatic sequelae always return to the traumatic situation in dreams or reality, and are always in a state of feeling that something important has not been solved and trying to repair it. Because Wanda has chaotic magic, which can distort or modify reality, she can not only dream like ordinary people, but also create a world and live in it through magic.

Freud pointed out in "Creative Writers and Daydreams" that for adults, creating fantasy has replaced childhood games. This game is like a daydream, it is the realization of wishes. Klein School thus developed the theory of subconscious fantasy, which holds that the driving force of creativity is often accompanied by symbols and repair mechanisms.

In the movie Wild Strawberry, ingmar bergman, through a long and bizarre "daydream", shows that the protagonist repeatedly heals his permanently lost childhood in the subconscious illusion, and constantly sees the blank clock symbolizing the passage of time, the first lover who has left, and the parents who have become very loving. This is not only the restoration of the movie protagonist, but also the restoration of Bergman's own childhood.

In Wanda's vision, Wanda also had such a "daydream". She is the subject of this dream, and may also be the author of this dream. This imaginary little world is full of her broken trauma echoes, and the happy life she lives in is the compensation for her desire and loss of her object. Let's look at the echoes of these wounds.

0 1. Subconscious Blade

An indestructible mind

In the beginning, Wanda teased her indestructible head about illusion, which is the echo of Avengers 3. The sight of Thanos digging for gems once made Wanda extremely miserable, and she fantasized about repairing it in this small universe.

The tradition of Sokovia

The tradition of making fun of guests by covering their eyes is a copy of The Avengers 2. Wanda and Kuaiyin were detained in the secret base of Hydra in Sokovia for human experiments in their early years and made their debut in Reunion 2. Wanda attacked Iron Man from behind and showed him the scariest pictures with both hands, which led Iron Man to create Ultron, causing serious harm to the residents of Sokovia and even taking her brother away. If she had the chance to do it again, Wanda might hope that all she had to do was blindfold and guess who I was.

"Time" is the key word of Wanda's traumatic memory. She always wanted to spend more time with her vision, and even avoided the Avengers and went to Northern Europe, but all this was destroyed by the arrival of Thanos. Finally, her eyesight was brutally torn by Thanos, and she used a time gem.

Time became Wanda's obsession. In the advertisement, he will make time for you, and he will read it together, which is homophonic with "cure". It also implies that Wanda created this imaginary world to heal the trauma of losing her lover and recapture the time they could not have otherwise.

(But it is also possible that this "he" refers to a villain who can make an offer to Wanda, such as the wishing stone of wonder woman 1984. )

Dreams are the satisfaction of desires, but they are also disguised. Dreams will process unconscious desires and hide them. Dreams should not only express meaning, but also hide meaning. This is why all these traumatic memories appear in the form of replacement and secondary decoration, and become our favorite eggs.

If we use Freud's unconscious theory and universality theory to understand, this imaginary world can actually be interpreted as Wanda's daytime dream, which is composed of Wanda's traumatic echo and unconscious desire. Of course, it also includes sexual desire. After being criticized by some big directors that superheroes don't have sexual needs, Marvel Comics put this on the table (actually it has been shown before). Before the American TV series, because inexplicably inherited the British film rating system at that time, the husband and wife insisted on sleeping in separate beds. In Wanda Dreamland, Wanda used magic to combine two beds to fight against sexual desire.

02. There is no illusion and self-defense mechanism.

At this point, we have to remind a more tragic fact that illusion was also created by Wanda under this psychological mechanism. Just like the ring of red, green and blue lights on the TV screen at the end of the movie is virtual.

The name of the series is Wanda Vision, not Wanda Vision. Therefore, although this series seems to be Wanda and illusion together on the surface, it is actually the story of Wanda. At the beginning, Wanda Vision can be interpreted as Wanda's husband's surname after marriage, and the word Vision has an illusion meaning, suggesting that all this is just Wanda's illusion.

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In the film Inception, there is a specific interpretation of trauma psychology. The lost object, wife, keeps appearing in the protagonist's dream, but it is aggressive, forcing the protagonist to wake up from the dream many times. In Wanda's Phantom, the illusion of the loss of objects constantly appears in Wanda's daydream, but it is extremely unstable, and this dream has been questioned many times.

Visually and sensitively perceive the surrounding environment.

Psychoanalysis also believes that trying to lead these unconscious desires to the level of consciousness will cause psychological resistance of self-defense mechanism.

Therefore, the problem of illusion is always rejected by Wanda nervously, constantly persuading him to accept the world. Tian Jianju's airplane model, the voice of the special agent in the radio station, the appearance of the sewer bee man and so on. Stimulated by the external reality, trying to awaken Wanda's consciousness. But because Wanda escaped into the dream of self-repair, she instinctively refused to wake up, fearing that hallucinations and others would see these abnormalities.

The plane of Tian Jian Bureau (it is worth noting that the function of Tian Jian Bureau in MCU is different from that of comics, and it has been changed to a sentient observer).

This instinct was particularly evident in the passage I saw the bee man. Wanda firmly said "no" to the bee man. Some people speculate that she may know that this man is a dangerous villain, so she wants to run away. But from the expression, perhaps the bee man is like a plane, a person who entered Wanda World from the external reality in an attempt to wake her up, and his appearance not only stimulated her consciousness, but also aroused her doubts about her vision behind her again, so she quickly erased this foreign body and made a decision to continue to immerse herself in this world.

A man covered in bees

Finally, at the end of the second episode, Wanda saw that the black and white of the imaginary world gradually turned into color, and paid tribute to the movie "Happy Valley" of 1998, in which the protagonist also crossed the black and white world "Happy Valley" on TV because he hated the real world, and people lived a quiet life step by step in this world. When the protagonist slowly began to disobey the rules of this world, he began to see colorful things, and then colors spread all over the world.

Happy Valley

Every time the color appears in Vision of Wanda, it means a turbulent awakening of consciousness and finally enters a colorful world. It also means that this imaginary world has changed from stable and controllable to calm, becoming more and more unstable, full of excitement and uncontrollable. It also shows that Wanda is gradually floating from the deep unconscious, indicating that Wanda is awake and we are not far from the truth.

03. Finally, talk about the form of sitcom.

We know Wanda lived a visionary life is sweet in this world. But why is this style of painting? Why did American sitcoms in the fifties and sixties? Wanda is very familiar with this form. The first episode pays tribute to an American sitcom "A Fairy's Wife" broadcast by 1964 (1964 is also the year when the role of Wanda first appeared in Marvel comics).

There is a fairy wife at home

Excluding the writer's personal preference, we can draw two kinds of guesses about the setting of sitcom. One is that Wanda may watch many American sitcoms with her family in Sokovia every day when she was a child. The family relationship in the play is regarded as a beautiful life by her at an early age, but because of her special ability and identity, she has never experienced this kind of daily life, so she created this small universe herself and interpreted her ordinary life with her ideal model of childhood.

There is a small problem with this interpretation, that is, at Wanda's age, when she first appeared in The Avengers, she should be only about 20 years old. Let's just say that she is born after 90. How can she watch a lot of TV plays in the fifties and sixties? This leads to a second guess, that is, this small universe was built by others for Wanda, and these TV elements came from that person's experience. Who will have such an experience? A possible candidate is Agatha Harkness, who is also one of the popular candidates suspected of accusing her neighbor Agnes. Agatha is an ancient witch in comics. She has been a nanny of Fantastic Four for a long time in the real world. She may watch a lot of American sitcoms.

Both kinds of guesses depend on a key question, whether this imaginary universe was created by Wanda herself or by others. Personally, I prefer the first explanation. If the world is arranged by others, it is difficult to explain why there are so many psychological projections of Wanda.

And there are many details showing that the world is Wanda-centered. For example, in a scene of a dinner party, the boss of Dreamland almost choked to death because he rudely questioned Wanda's memory. During the period, although the boss's wife smiled and said "stop", her expression seemed to beg Wanda for mercy in horror.

People can't help but think of the black maid in Escape from the Broken City. On the surface, she is forced to smile, but the rest of her consciousness is crying. Therefore, I tend to think that this is indeed the world that Wanda subconsciously sensed.

Escape from the broken city

Of course, this is my understanding and speculation based only on the first two episodes. It may be that Marvel Comics suddenly said "Ah, ha, ha, ha, actually, that's not what I meant" after the broadcast.

Generally speaking, the completion of the first two episodes surprised me. Marvel comics dare to slow down and be strange. He wrapped up the inner horror suspense with a retro and interesting sitcom, and at the same time integrated psychoanalysis into the script creation, which profoundly presented Wanda's broken heart and collapsed mental state, laying a solid foundation for Wanda's possible "madness", which is a rare attempt in Marvel comics and superhero movies.

In fact, the reason why fans love the characters of Marvel comics so much, and even lead to a drama abuse war, is because MCU writers always take good care of the inner drama of each character, so that we can touch their feelings and understand their decisions, and then we can have such a big connection with each character, as if we all know each other. I think this is the cornerstone and secret of Marvel Comics' successful establishment of the whole universe.

I am very much looking forward to the next development. Who is the devil?