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Comparing Fantasy In A Shadow Of Doubt, Bress, And

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The relationship between fantasy in reality, and desire connects between the various states of the mind. Fantasy is when someone’s thoughts are indifferent to what is actually happening in reality. A person may imagine impossible things, that have been imaged about a situation. Understanding oneself and why the mind works in a specific way can help accept what is in the present, and letting go of what is holding one back. Certain actions can help break getting lost within fantasy which causes growth for the future of reality. Through Hitchcock’s “A Shadow of Doubt”, and Eric Bress’, J. Mackye Gruber’s “The Butterfly Effect” reflects how the human mind is explored through the truth of fantasy through reality and desire. Fantasy in psychology …show more content…

(Robichaud ) All the main traumatic experiences of the child pornography, seeing and being involved in the death of a person, and the experience of visiting his father in the mental institution, are events that he would repress because they are hard events to relive, therefore his blackouts are his brain putting away these memories without his knowledge. Even though Evan keeps trying to fix the lives of his friends, someone always ends up in an unfortunate state. But Evans desire to push for a happy life is human nature. (Robichaud ) The movie expresses how the mind works to protect our emotions from human nature, by how the unconscious mind can be more powerful and understanding the past can help shape a person to whom they are through cognitive and emotional understanding of the memory. Thus “It is our unconscious mind that protects our emotional feeling from overwhelming tragedies that would otherwise destroy us”. …show more content…

The trauma for Evan of having his father absent in his life is like a mental wound, that has left a scar which thus brings him back to an emotional state as a child, such as when he finally went to go visit his father in the mental hospital, where his father tried to physically and verbally abuse him him, and was shot dead by a guard to protect Evan. These past associations link to fantasy because it makes him feel when he goes back to his blackout memories that all these events are happening again when they actually are not. The fantasy of this is what takes him back to an uneasy place. The fantasy here is not exactly about imagination, it is letting Evan let go of his unconscious to drive them in a way of his desires, which is his desire to try to go back in time to fix everyone

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