--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ > wrote: > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 8/1/06 12:50:58 P.M. Central > Daylight Time, > > > jstein@ writes: > > > > > > *If* he really wants to be a decent person and > live > > > up to his Christian ideals, his father's anti- > > > Semitism must be a horrible conflict for him. He > > > > seems not to be able to cross his father; maybe > > > > he's afraid his father won't love him any more > if > > > he does. Not a good place to be in. > > > > > > He may believe in the biblical teaching that one > doesn't betray > or > > > disrespect ones authority figures, no matter how > wrong the may be > > > because God gave them authority over you. > > > > On the other hand, he has said that his father has > > "never lied to him." > > > > It's a good point, though, that he may actually > have > > a religious conflict, but I'd suggest that's in > > addition to an emotional conflict about publicly > > disagreeing with his father. > > > > As a public figure himself who made a > controversial > > movie about Jesus Christ, he can't just keep > entirely > > silent. He's going to be asked about it over and > > over, and whatever he says is going to be given > wide > > publicity. So he really is between a rock and a > hard > > place. He can't publicly *agree OR disagree* with > > his father. > > > > No wonder he drinks... > > Hmm. Now I'm wondering whether the idea of making > the movie about Christ was part of this prompting I > suggested he's getting from his psyche to get the > conflict with his father out in the open and deal > with it. > > That didn't work, so the next thing was for him to > have a drunken meltdown in which he more or less > channeled his father. > > Gibson was very good, by the way, in the movie > "Hamlet," which he directed and starred in. > "Hamlet" is very much about father conflicts. > > Does "Braveheart" have anything about fathers > in it? I never saw it. > > I did see "Patriots" (and wished I hadn't--it was > dreadful). Can't recall whether there was father > stuff in that--he *plays* a father, but I'm not > sure there was anything in it that resonated with > the current situation. A psychoanalytic look at Mel's movies easily reveals an unresolved Oedipal conflict. In most of his movies he plays a charming, rebellious, under-valued, adolescent-like character always bucking the established authority and at time betrayed by it: Brave Heart. In a sense Mel is still a boy because of the narcissitic domination of his father, who from all accounts, is a real bastard. A stiff, unloving father who is in unconscious competition with his son can never truly value and love his son and psychologically support his transition into adulthood and becoming a man. Mel has the classic Oedipal, love/hate relationship with a narcissistic father that produces a man-boy who is desparately seeking his father's witheld approval and simultaneously raging against his father's unacceptance of him. No wonder he self-medicates with booze. Mel's a bit of a mess! -Dr. Freud at the Movies > > > > > > > > > > > > The Story of Noah being drunk and naked is > relevant > > > here. Hamm came in the cave and found Noah drunk > and naked and > went > > out blabbing > > > it to everyone where as the two other brothers > found their father > > in that > > > condition and covered him up and said nothing to > anyone about it. > > Noah was > > > their authority figure and while what he did was > wrong and > > despicable he wasn't > > > punished by God where as Hamm was for his > disrespect of his > father, > > and the > > > other brothers were blessed for taking care of > their father and > > remaining quiet. > > > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
