[EVA] (ML) German ties to EVA

[chris wild]

Carl Gustav Jung was Swiss, and Sigmund Freud from Austria
(but speaking German)

;)

xtoph


on 20.02.2002 1:25, David Banuelos at davidban at uclink.berkeley.edu wrote:

> I read that Hideaki Anno was highly influenced by Carl Gustav Jung and
> Sigmund Freud, both German psychologists. This may account for the German
> references. There is other evidence of this. Many of the titles of the
> soundtrack songs (Separation Anxiety, Mother is the First Other) are quotes
> from Freud's writings. A.T. field stands for "absolute terror" which I
> believe is a Freudian term. And, of course, the great importance of parents
> in the show is very Freudian. Shinji could even be described as having an
> Oedipus complex.
> 
> David
> 
> At 05:18 AM 2/19/02 -0800, you wrote:
>> Does anyone know why Eva has so many german ties, NERV, SEELE,
>> GEHIRN,EVANGELION, and EVA are all german words, NERV means Nerves, SEELE
>> means Soul, GEHIRN means Brain, EVANGELION is a messenger of god, and eva
>> is the german name for Eve. Was thos done in order to make look cool the
>> ways that the Jeudo-Christianitic ties were said to. or is it something else?
>