Patrick Melrose Biography

For analysis, I decided to take a character from the series Patrick Melrouz. The basis of the series was the autobiographical novels of Edward Saint-Obin, but I will analyze an exclusively fictional character. As a theoretical base, I chose the first topic of Z. The first topic of Z. Freud The series begins with the death of the father of the protagonist. From the very beginning of the series, we see how P.

the hero often captures the principle of pleasure, he often surrenders to unconscious states. In the first series, Patrick gives the impression of an arrogant, intellectual, cynical, insensitive and irresponsible person. However, we see that he has enough energy of the pre -knowledgeable, connected by the principles of reality in order to attempt to change the lifestyle. After the news of the death of his father, the hero decides to tie with drug use.

In my opinion, a very strong affect is laid in his unconscious, which he directs to self -destruction. At the time of violence, as Patrick will then tell his friend to a psychotherapist, he came up with - if he imagines that he is not in his body, but in the body of the lizard seen on the ceiling, he will be able to survive this situation. This breaks down the psyche of an 8-year-old boy.

Throughout his life, before the events of the series, Patrick does not share these memories with anyone, so affect destroys him from the inside, that is, there is a displacement of destructive energy from the frightening figure of his father. Its actual death translates the affect from the unconscious into a precedence and makes it possible to refuse to displacement.

However, only by the middle of the series the hero shares with his friend the tragic events of his childhood. Words are part of the system of the pre -knowledge. Therefore, even after the verbalization of his experience, Patrick was a long path from kickbacks, dependent groups, quarrels with his wife and children, betrayal and hospitalization. And only by the end of the last series, this is almost 20 years later, he finally releases painful memories and refuses destructive behavior.

For a long time, the affect still belongs to the system of pre -knowledge. Patrick Melrose Patrick nevertheless retains a relatively good image of his mother inside. The boy is tied to her and often seeks in childhood she has consolation. He almost tells her in childhood about violence on the same day, but something distracts him and he changes his mind. Then his father threatens him and forbids anyone to tell him.

A woman has a shift in the affect of love, she ceases to express love for loved ones and becomes more generous to strangers. The censorship of Patrick, in my opinion, holds the image of the mother idealized, that is, there is a thickening of positive affects on her, since they cannot be directed to her father. A relatively good relationship with the mother, who suffered from alcoholism, but nevertheless retained the memories of her plans and dreams of youth, allow the hero to establish personal life - to marry and make children.

Although we see that his wife’s attitude towards him often resembles a maternal. A high position in society, communications, intelligence and support of the family and a psychotherapist’s friend enable him to maintain a relatively healthy part of his personality. Drug addiction is replaced by alcohol. It becomes clear to the audience that the mother also copes with the affect, moving it to the pre -knowledge or unconscious, so as not to interact with it.

At the end of the series, we see the death of Patrick's mother. She rewrites the entire inheritance - a large house - to a fraudulent, as it turns out, is an organization. Having removed from the tragedy of her family, she wants to help an unknown public group. Here, a shift in affect from his son to a group of strangers and the abstract idea of ​​charity is visible. By this time, Patrick refused idle life, received a professional education and got a job as a lawyer.

Mother asks to check the inheritance paper for the correctness that Patrick perceives as even greater injustice and is now angry not only on her father, but also on the mother. It may be a matter of maintaining the economic balance, because the affect of the rage inside the hero does not disappear anywhere after the first death of the parent. In the last series, we see how Patrick collects inside himself the whole range of his feelings, without removing them into their unconscious parts.

He shares what is experiencing for his mother and father not only rage, but also sympathy, pity and many other emotions. Finally, he feels that the psyche does not flood the affects and he can remain in his conscious part of the psyche without destroying. That is, the conscious part of the psyche, which is associated with reality, prevailed over the primary processes. List of literature.

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