[EVA] Evangelion Psychoanalysis

[Pedro Cruz]

A very interesting article:


"(...)
This document was made based on the Manual of Mental Disorders and mainly
the basic concepts of the psychoanalytical theory of FREUD.
(...)
Rei, Asuka, Shinji: Super-ego, Id, Ego:
One interpretation that can be made concerning these characters is that
Shinji represents the ego; that is, the visible face of the mind, the
personality and the result of the balance of the other mental forces. Asuka
is the Id; desires and instincts without censorship. In other words, the
part of a person that only cares about what he wants, without concern for
the consequences. Finally, Rei takes the place of the super-ego, the judge
for the ego; it censors and imposes social morals beyond its own desires. In
this case the ego is dominated by the super-ego (typical in depressive
people). For this reason, Rei appears in the "visions" of Shinji, asking him
things like "Did you try to understand?". Also she slapped him when he said
negative things about his father.
Asuka simply thinks that Shinji is a repressed idiot, typical of the id and
also of Asuka.

Libido and Thanatos:
Another interpretation that can be done if we take into account some details
of the movie "The End of Evangelion", it is that Shinji continues
corresponding to the Ego, but Asuka and Rei pass to represent the impulses
of life and death that are defined, respectively, as tendencies or instincts
toward the creation and the movement toward destruction and absolute rest.
(...)"

the rest:
Characters (basic)
Asuka and the 15th angel Arael (basic)
AT field - Mechanism of Repression (basic)
Oedipus/Electra Complex (basic)
Oral stage (basic)
Rei, Asuka, Shinji: Super-ego, Id, Ego (advanced)
Libido and Thanatos (advanced)
Asuka-Libido (pulsations of life) (advanced)
Kaworu-Narcissist Libido (advanced)
Rei-Thanatos (pulsations of death) and the Plan of Human Complementation
(experts)
in: http://neonparadox.web1000.com