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• Reddit evangelion episode 4 series#

Because I want to die, I want to despair, I want to return to nothing." In episode 25 Shinji and Asuka both show that they in fact suffered similar pasts and found different ways of dealing with it.

Reddit evangelion episode 4 series#

Nobody needs a pilot who can't control her own Eva." Rei, who throughout the series has displayed minimal emotion, reveals that she does have one impulse it is Thanatos, an inclination to death: "I am Happy. Asuka comes to the realization that her entire being is caught up in being a competent Eva pilot and that without it, she has no personal identity: "I'm the junk… I'm worthless. Asuka and Rei are also depicted in deep introspection and consideration of their psyches. Indeed, the last two episodes are "stripped of the high-tech gadgetry and the colorful visuals that characterize the earlier episodes in the series, these last two episodes take place largely in muted tones… a form of interrogation proceeds to be carried out as he asks himself-or is asked by an unseen voice-probing psychological questions." The questions elicit unexpected answers, particularly the ones dealing with Shinji's motivation for piloting the Eva-he feels worthless and afraid of others (especially his father) if he is not piloting the Eva. Ritsuko saw her mother having an affair with Gendo Ikari after her mother's suicide she felt both attraction and hate towards Gendo. Similarly, many scenes overlap images of Shinji's mother with images of his potential lovers, both lining up with Freudian theories. In episode 25, Misato states that she was both attracted to and afraid of Ryoji Kaji because he reminded her of her father. Misato's father neglected her when she was a child after he was killed in the Second Impact, she stopped talking for a couple of years. Asuka was the target of her mother's insanity, and discovered her mother's body after she hanged herself her tough, bullying personality is a means of distracting herself from her pain, and she has made piloting Unit 02 her only source of pride and satisfaction.

Shinji's introversion and social anxiety stem from the death of his mother at an early age and his abandonment by his father. Many of the characters have deep psychological traumas in relation to their parents. The scenery and buildings in Tokyo-3 often seem laden with psychological import, even in the first episode. Examples include " Thanatos", " Oral stage", " Separation Anxiety", and "Mother Is the First Other" (the basis of the Oedipus complex is that the mother is the first object of the child's love).

Phrases used in episodes, their titles, and the names of the background music frequently derive from Sigmund Freud's works, in addition to perhaps some Lacanian influences in general. From the start, Evangelion invokes many psychological themes. Evangelion has long been taken as a deeply personal expression of Hideaki Anno's personal struggles and his long battle with depression.