i guess one way of becoming schizophrenic is to draw a clear line to set yourself apart from the things in yourself that you detest. it's like dr jekyll and mr hyde. you draw the line so clearly to try to separate what you hate in yourself that those things become another entity in itself. maybe that's why psychopathy and schizophrenia are so closely linked.
i watched mr brooks the other day... a show abt a serial killer who has an alter ego who is addicted to killing. in the show tho, mr brooks comes out with a scheme, ostensibly, to end his life as a serial killer without hurting his family. the plan involves leading his wannabe apprentice down a course of action that will ultimately lead to his apprentice killing him in his own dug-out grave, so that mr brooks just 'disappears' without trace. of course, he refuses to reveal his plan to his alter ego for fear that his alter ego will stop him. at the last minute tho, mr brooks turns the tables on his apprentice, claiming that he wanted to see his granddaughter (unborn) and kills his apprentice, cutting his throat with the shovel. we later realize that mr brooks tampered with his apprentice's weapon earlier 'just in case' he changed his mind abt dying. which he did of course. his alter ego, who knows nothing of this scheme says in the background, "so this was your plan all along".
a host of qns thus arise: which is the more evil one, the more manipulating one - mr brooks or his alter ego? what happens when the superego actually becomes more evil than the alter ego? is the alter ego thus subsumed? what happens, as in the show, when the superego works hand in hand with the alter ego? do they become greater than the sum of the 2 parts?
hmm freud theory is interesting. never knew it was so... broad.
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i guess one way of becoming schizophrenic is to draw a clear line to set yourself apart from the things in yourself that you detest. it's like dr jekyll and mr hyde. you draw the line so clearly to try to separate what you hate in yourself that those things become another entity in itself. maybe that's why psychopathy and schizophrenia are so closely linked.
i watched mr brooks the other day... a show abt a serial killer who has an alter ego who is addicted to killing. in the show tho, mr brooks comes out with a scheme, ostensibly, to end his life as a serial killer without hurting his family. the plan involves leading his wannabe apprentice down a course of action that will ultimately lead to his apprentice killing him in his own dug-out grave, so that mr brooks just 'disappears' without trace. of course, he refuses to reveal his plan to his alter ego for fear that his alter ego will stop him. at the last minute tho, mr brooks turns the tables on his apprentice, claiming that he wanted to see his granddaughter (unborn) and kills his apprentice, cutting his throat with the shovel. we later realize that mr brooks tampered with his apprentice's weapon earlier 'just in case' he changed his mind abt dying. which he did of course. his alter ego, who knows nothing of this scheme says in the background, "so this was your plan all along".
a host of qns thus arise: which is the more evil one, the more manipulating one - mr brooks or his alter ego? what happens when the superego actually becomes more evil than the alter ego? is the alter ego thus subsumed? what happens, as in the show, when the superego works hand in hand with the alter ego? do they become greater than the sum of the 2 parts?
hmm freud theory is interesting. never knew it was so... broad.