Anime as Interpreted in the Psychological Lens of Neon Genesis Evangelion

[Frostyvale]

The objective of this thread is to inspire rampant armchair psychoanalysis of anime. Keeping in mind the symbolic and psychological themes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, please introduce an argument with a distinct position, regarding one or more of the shows from the current or former seasons.

If you understand, then get your monocle on, light your pipe, we're doing this.

Example: Valvrave the Liberator's emphasis on memory as a source for power directly relates to Evangelion's "light of the soul" or the AT field. Where Valvrave represents human existence as a cobbled together patchwork of ever-fading memories, each burning out in a glorious release of light and energy, Evangelion represents humanity as a homogeneous whole, a group of similar compounds, differentiated only by the shape of the container. The AT field is a metaphysical representation of the border of human consciousness, as opposed to the materialistic view of Valvrave, wherein memory and by extension consciousness are nothing more than energy in a functional arrangement.

[2Bad]

personally, if I analyze it, I feel that during the writing process of an Evangelion product, Hideaki Anno spends 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with his head lodged firmly up his own ass, and only removes it once the scripts and storyboards are complete

[Frostyvale]

personally, if I analyze it, I feel that during the writing process of an Evangelion product, Hideaki Anno spends 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with his head lodged firmly up his own ass, and only removes it once the scripts and storyboards are complete

Interesting. Do you think that this could be related to the Jungian duality of man?

[Mcjon01]

Having extensively psychoanalyzed Evangelion vis a vis the current otaku cultural "product" I am forced to acknowledge that Asuka is, in the modern parlance, "cute."

[Kirby]

Kakukaku Shikijaka, through the lens of Neon Genesis Evangelion

[Marmadillo]

is Rahxephon a Eva clone

[Kirby]

To Love-Ru, through the lens of Neon Genesis Evangelion

[Marmadillo]

What was the Rei ghost in episode 1 and EoE?

[Snow]

A metaphorical representation of deez nutz.

[Snow]

Ohh it's deeeep oh pardon.

[Marmadillo]

The ideal wished by Araya in Paradox Spiral, on a less morbid level: God gives value to human existence by observation of their whole lives and not just the end.

Somewhat clashes with the agnostic presentation of the world, God's in his Heaven. Unless End Rei is seen as an actual divine being, not a feat of alien engineering.

[2Bad]

rodyle pls

everyone who's actually bothered to listen and read it liked it

[SeiKeo]

"God's in his Heaven" is self-consciously ironic.

[Snow]

Compare and contrast: cosmic forces that are part of the world of Eastern spirituality vs God as a distinct person outside of the world of abrahamic religions.

In NGE.

[Marmadillo]

Yes, but the absence is real with all the angst it entails. [headcanon]Ergo Shinji as a metaphor for humanity.[/headcanon]

[Mashina]

Ask me anything about neon generis Evangelion

Is it good?

[eddyak]

Perhaps the most pertinent chart, pertaining to this thread, and its relevancy throughout anime and perhaps even life itself.

Spoiler:

[Marmadillo]

An unexamined life is not worth living.

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By the time of EoE she is, of course.

She is a tool, a way to become God/be one with it, not God itself, imo.

[black1blade]

I like eva.

[Marmadillo]

Ultimately, God doesn't answer.