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Ferdinand Schmutzer. Sigmund Freud. Vienna. 1926

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[dyn4mightz]

"AFO & Overhaul were evil for no reason!"

A lazy psychoanalysis, because I hate hearing the generalization of This and That character had no reason to be evil.

Warning: Spoilers

AFO: Greed and helplessness

The nature of a person's core personality is heavily influenced by their quirk— refer to Toga Himiko (obsessive), Bakugo Kastuki (explosive), Mirio (Optimistic), Dabi (Passion), Shoto (Integration of extreme).

OP: Wriggle eyebrows at the last part

AFO's power is all consuming, overwhelming and greedy. Which explains why that mf tortures his twin brother even in the uterus. He was born on the streets and this went unchecked, uncontrollable. How was it supposed to be? He wasn't even supposed to have a quirk. Heck, no one even had quirks before him.

You know how a pregnant mother's habits, diet and environment would influence a child? If a mother is a drug addict or an alcoholic, her child would have a disorder of some sort. This is a real-life example:

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) & Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)

AFO's mother was a prostitute on the streets and that alone was consistent abuse and trauma. But what led her to be forced on the streets? What happened? Where's her family? And then there's this case of epigenetics. I'm not saying the mama was an alcoholic or a drug addict, I'm meant to question you so you'd question yourself: What do you think happened to the mother?

It was just in his nature to be fueled by greed and his environment fed it's insatiable need for power— because powerlessness meant helplessness, and helplessness is a weakness.

"But Bakugo is explosive yet he still chose heroic path!"

Because of the environment he was raised in, despite his mother's volatility and ideals, his father's passivity (and attention to detail— he works in the fashion industry, doesn't he?) and upbringing. He had strong principles and conviction. Not to mention.. he had a role model: All Might.

All of this also explains his high pride despite unstable self esteem and his tendency to push down the weak.

OVERHAUL: Fear of Imperfection and uncertainty

His quirk... dissembling and assembling. He destroys and rebuilds. It's like a kid who is unhappy with how someone built a sandcastle.. NO, THIS IS NOT CORRECT! and then he rebuilds it as he wishes, correctly.

False sense of control...assuming is only way of building is correct, his only order is correct.

His environment worsened this.

Overhaul was already obsessed with power and control (read: fear of helplessness and uncertainty) by nature, he was abandoned without a stable parental/nurturing figure. This made his early childhood terrifyingly unpredictable as a child and his defense mechanism was to become hyper logical, detached with heavy intellectualization of himself and the world.

Sure, the Yakuza's head found him but he found him at the age when he already developed these defense and coping mechanisms.

If anything, the rigid and strict structure of the Yakuza family only enforced his way of thinking. (And his fear of abandonment. Like a stray cat constantly afraid of being picked up one random day and abandoned on the streets again. He likely chased after approval, always afraid)

It was evident he failed to see the nuances in humanity, this was encouraged in one of the sentences thrown to him when all he desired was for validation from his only parental figure:

"Follow our rules, or leave."

Not only that he was an obsessive kid, he was also an obsessive kid afraid of abandonment at every turn. And that statement alone instills an "All or Nothing" mindset, which explains his tendency to Idealize and Devalue. Black and white thinking is a coping mechanism for extreme stress, a way for the brain to compartmentalize emotions to make it digestible. Unfortunately, this also leads to extremes and obsession.

Overhaul has extreme ideologies that obsessed over his father figure.

His obsessive, controlling nature went unchecked with absolute power in his hands— that was what made him the man he was.

CONCLUSION:

Emotional repression and daddy issues are the actual villain in MHA

refer to my previous psychoanalisis...the point of MHA is to figure out how to stop abuse and how to even prevent it from happening in the first place. I've spot abuse here and how it happened... the way you've figured out how Shigaraki and Dabi could've been saved, at which point could AFO and Overhaul be "saved" from their nature?

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Archetypes and Ubermen: Nietzsche’s Disdain For The Common Struggles of The Oppressed And Jordan Peterson's Meta-Narrative

“Peterson’s writings are a hodgepodge of Christian existentialism, Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, and E. O. Wilson. But the main philosophical issue is his Nietzschean conception of power. Only a strong will, exercising itself against a contingent and meaningless world — and against the weak — can ever hope to flourish […] Peterson’s philosophy presupposes a stark division between an atomized world of facts and a transcendent realm of meaning — what he describes as the tension between chaos and order. Peterson gives these principles of order and chaos Jungian significance as masculine and feminine archetypes.”

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“We must reject the characterization of Peterson’s fan base as normal people who are sick and tired of the politically correct left; this assumption simply repeats Nietzsche’s disdain for the common struggles of the oppressed, including the struggles of racial minorities, women, and LGBTQ people. It accepts a standard of normal as defined by the mainstream media or, worse, by the alt-right themselves. For instance, Peterson’s refusal to respect people who use different pronouns to express their identity is no small issue, but a central one for recognizing the humanity of transgender people.

Peterson does not speak for what is “normal.” His jargon of authenticity — that he is just a simple academic fighting for truth amid so much political correctness and censorship — masks his authoritarian ideas. He calls Marxism a “murderous ideology,” but his paranoid and conspiratorial politics are hard to distinguish from the alt-right’s denunciations of cultural Marxism. Indeed, the line between Peterson’s authoritarianism and Richard Spencer’s paleo-Nazism is a blurry one. In their appeal to middle-class liberals, the reactionary’s best alibi has always been militant anti-communism.”

I found philosopher Harrison Fluss’s analysis of Jordan Peterson’s bullshit to be pretty spot on. And Peterson is yet another example of a conservative using a terrible reading of Nietzsche’s critique of slave morality to support the neo-Darwinian idea that some people are just inherently superior to others and therefore more fit to rule over them economically and/or politically. It’s interesting to me, though, that Peterson likes to use Jungian masculine and feminine archetypes to ground his misogynistic views because I thought it was always pretty well accepted that Jung was “the opposite of Nietzsche and a Kantian” (he is according to this Quora article anyway). And further, as Alexander Blum has pointed out, if Peterson is going to use Jung’s mythic work with regard to the Bible he should not leave out the vital part about the Divine Feminine and Holy Sophia.

But on the subject of psychoanalysis in general for a second, I’ve always taken it with a grain of salt. That is to say, as a process-relational and radical Christian thinker, who enjoys studying metaphysics, I can definitely recognize a meta-narrative when I see it! I think back to John Caputo famously calling Lacania/Žižekian psychoanalytic theory “Crypto Calvanism” and accusing folks like Žižek of being interested in Christianity only as an outsider that wishes to employ it in the service of something else; I nod my head in affirmation every time. Psychoanalysis (Jungian, Lacanian, Freudian, whatever ((and all the variations within each))) definitely offers up a metaphysical system every bit as complicated and overarching as those found in any religion, i.e. those psychoanalysts sure do know how to spin a good yarn about human nature! As this thorough critique of Freudian psychoanalysis points out, “the goal of psychoanalysis was no longer to find out what caused a patient’s problems, in a manner that is consistent with scientific knowledge about how the mind works, but rather to make up a good story about the origins of those problems. It is not therefore an accident that contemporary psychoanalysis finds a warmer welcome in departments of comparative literature than in departments of psychology.”

Anyway, to be clear, I’m not against a good meta-narrative that might help one to situate and/or orient her self, but two of the things I personally can’t stand about the streams psychoanalysis that I’m familiar with are how the role of the entity’s environment always seems to be overlooked (or downplayed) and, of course, the pessimistic psychic determinism (OMG the unconscious! Save me from it oh learned wise sage!). Ugh, no thanks. As I’ve written before, we humans are not “lacking,” and although I concede that every moment is a loss we mustn’t forget it is simultaneously a gain as well.

Archetypes and Ubermen: Nietzsche’s Disdain For The Common Struggles of The Oppressed And Jordan Peterson’s Meta-Narrative was originally published on TURRI

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Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable... just to be able to go on living.

[dyn4mightz]

I feel like MHA is painfully direct with what the fiction is discussing.

Society's failure at saving children of abuse, and society's failure at preventing these abuse from even happening in the first place.

Corruption begins at home— because home is the first place Power is given, to abuse it or to shape it. Often, who wouldn't want to have the upper hand? But real power comes from resistance and resistance comes from temptation and temptation is the hesitation in the cracks of your conviction.

If you were to abuse power on the powerless, is it not disrespect to your autonomy?

A child's moral failure isn't just his parents', teacher's, his friends' and grandparent's— but the structure of society, resources of help who were supposed to help, network of knowledge online and offline, guides who were meant to guide... ultimately, his own.

The core lesson of MHA is to be heroic in mundane ways, to believe in cause-effect and understanding that the ripples of your actions shapes the future, understanding how your past shapes your present.

To move and to be moved.

To have principles and instincts stable enough that before your mind works, your body moves first to react to injustice.

For this to happen, is for society to be educated and trained enough for the helpless.

But then again, are we questioning if we are failing ourselves and our future when we recklessly choose to pave the path of destruction?

[lensdeer]

Freud would've been a popufur