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Script: https://mynameismitchell.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/end-of-evangelion-psychoanalytic-impact-iii-2017/



I wrote this in 2017 whoops, so I'm not 100% happy with the script by this point but ehhhhh. It was originally an assignment I submitted for a "psychology in film analysis" unit, so it had to fit to a 2200 word limit, and although I later expanded it a little before uploading it to my blog, to fix its structure would require rewriting the entire thing.

I talked some about Freud so I feel like I also need to acknowledge that we just don't really like him anymore. He's most famous for his Oedipus complex concept because of the meme potential, but when you get past that he's problematic. I'm sure you could already glimpse it through what I talked about in the video, but Freud essentially believed that the phallus was the seat of power, and that females were the 'second gender' as they did not have one, living their entire life feeling its loss in what he dubbed 'penis envy'. Females were just humans without a phallus - without power, so to speak. He was an incredibly mysoginistic man even for his era, and that only becomes more glaring in contemporary times. But even though I don't agree with his philosophies at all, it's still fascinating to trace through how these elements are tangibly written into the show.