The "Uncanny" and the "Shadow"

Sigmund Freud is the most famous psychanalyst, He studied the relation between the soul and the body. He worked as psychiatrist with crazy people and hysterics women .
He believes in the conscious and the subconcious of everyone. He believes also that you could learn about this unconscious of somebody by studying his dreams.
As for him, there are three parts in everyone that he calls Archetypes:
The "Id" based on our unconscious. The Id is our animal part. That's represent the things that we really wanna do, our "Pleasure Principle" without thinking about the consequences. It's the impulsiv part of our mind.
The Super Ego which plays the role of mediator and control our Id.
The Ego is the social person, the reasonable part of us.
He also studied "The Uncanny" which a very complex notion for me!!! That's the scarry or weird impression that we feel sometimes about some situations without knowing why. Or it can be when you have the impression that's something is pretty familiar although it's the first time that you see it.... for Freud that's the result of the relation between our conscious and subconscious.

C.G Jung as Freud's student shares the same ideas about the consicous subconscious and keeps the idea of Archetypes.
Jung's Archetypes are however different.
The Anima represents the female soul. Trinity in the Matrix for instance plays the archetype of the Female
The Animus the masculine soul like Neo .
The shadow is the third archetype and can be compared to the unconscious of Freud.
The shadow gathers all the bad experiences and painful feelings that we experienced in our life.
The shadow is the part of our mind that we want to forget. The risk is that if we ignore it totally, the shadow takes the main personality and can make some people depressiv or crazy!!

Later, Joseph Campbell also mentions the huge part that the Ego plays in our life. That makes us submit to the system. It also compares the Ego with the Dragon that we find in all adventures stories. I like the image of the Dragon who holds us, the dragon who locks us and makes harder the quest of our own " Nirvana"....

Open your eyes...

Well, well , well......... One of the weirdest film I've ever seen.

I have to admit I didn't like this movie that much.

It was a little too much confusion for my little brain!

I couldn't understand if Ceasar was dreaming or if it was the reality, if he really got this accident...

I still don't know who is the real Nuria...?? 

The thing that I was thinking during the movie was that it was the opposite of the matrix

The main quest of Neo is to find the real world and to get out of the matrix.

Ceasar on the other hand wants to escape the real world to live in a dream.

However, "Matrix" and "Open your eyes" have the same end which is to privileged the real world as horrible as it may be.

Ceasar realises that he prefers to live in the reality even if he has to accept his new face. In living a dream, he realised that it happened to be even worst...

Final Project.....

For the final project, I’m thinking about doing a research paper about the media coverage of the Iraq War. It’s not because I’m very interested in this event, but more because I was in France in 2003 and I was surprised to see how the French Media and the US media covered the same event so differently.
Indeed when the war started, I closely watched the news as everybody. It was the main subject at school also. My teachers asked us to watch the international news, more specifically the US news because France and the US were like enemies when U.S decided to declare the war to Iraq.
I wanted to understand why French people were so against this war while American people supported the war.
I finally found out that the information that we were given in France and the images that we saw on TV were quietly different from the one in the US.

I was just thinking about another example: The war between Israel and Palestine, one more time two different point of view in France and Here in the U.S. The U.S were more Pro Israel, and in France we were more on the other side. The Medias are used to support one of these positions. But it shouldn’t be like this. The media should give to the audience an objective view about such horrible events they should communicate the real facts and to cover everything. Instead of picking this image or the other depending on the position of the government.
In taking the Iraq war in example , I want to underline the importance to really have a critical eye on what the medias communicate to us . If in 2003 everybody around the world had watched the same news, maybe the Iraq war would never happened…. For me it’s scary to see how powerful can be the medias and the governments understand and use it very well…It’s not the first time that the Propaganda leads people to support a war….. and not the last time if we still continue to believe everything we see.