[EVA] (ML) German ties to EVA

[David Banuelos]

Schade! Don't know how I flubbed that. Thanks for the correction.

At 12:39 PM 2/20/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Carl Gustav Jung was Swiss, and Sigmund Freud from Austria
>(but speaking German)
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>;)
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>xtoph
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>on 20.02.2002 1:25, David Banuelos at davidban at uclink.berkeley.edu wrote:
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> > 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?
> >