huntedbyacreature: oldadastra: arrivedmad: Adam Driver on Kylo Ren feeling “stuck”
huntedbyacreature:oldadastra:arrivedmad:Adam Driver on Kylo Ren feeling “stuck”OK, I have no idea what possessed the interviewer to phrase his question that way, but I’m pretty sure Driver just told us that he’s playing a character who feels stressed, anxious and trapped by what’s in front of him, and his place in it all. Sounds more like somebody searching for a way out than a person bent on galactic domination.I love it that even this far into the Long Wait, there are still little nuggets of story gold being unearthed for our perusal.This discussion about feeling “stuck” calls to mind the following passage from Carl Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul (a book Rian Johnson has referenced in a twitter exchange):I know only one thing: that when to my conscious outlook there is no possible way of going ahead, and I am therefore “stuck,” my unconscious will react to the unbearable standstill.This coming to a standstill is a psychic occurrence so often repeated in the evolution of mankind, that it has become the theme of many a fairy-tale and myth. We are told of the Open Sesame to the locked door, or of some helpful animal who finds the hidden way. We might put it this way: “getting stuck” is a typical event which, in the course of time, has evoked typical reactions and compensations. We may therefore expect with a certain degree of probability that something similar will appear in the reactions of the unconscious, as, for example, in dreams.This basically lays out Jung’s theory of compensation – that our unconscious finds a way to restore “psychic equilibrium.” If we analogize the Force to Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious, that is, a repository of archetypal images and motifs the individual draws upon in dreams, perhaps the Force awakens (and brings forth a certain “girl I’ve heard so much about”) to “compensate” for this dark side disequilibrium … -- source link
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