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Type of paper: Essay
Subject area: Movies
Academic level: College
Style: MLA
Size: 25.0 kB
Word count:
1193 words/5 pages
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Author: Lizette Park
Date submitted: 2008-11-18 15:55:37
Rating/Votes count:
5.00 / 2
 
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Tags: movie, neo, ego, anthropology, matrix, earth, buster, needleman, Watching, Matrix, Self, Jesus Christ, Socratic, Gnostic Morpheus, Gould, Near Earth, booster
In this paper I would like to talk about one of my favorite recent films
- The Matrix . As for me , this movie interweaves much symbolism ,
mythology , philosophy , and psychology . The movie challenges the
dominance of technology in our culture and predicts an apocalyptic
result from the use of artificial intelligence .
Yet , behind the human struggle for survival is a mythical backdrop upon
which are backlit , some psychological ideas regarding the human psyche .
These ideas include the ego-Self relationship and how it relates to the
persona , the shadow and individuation .
One question , which threads through the movie , is whether or not Neo is
The One and there , as it seems to me , Neo is compared to Jesus Christ
and this comparison is played throughout the movie .
Early resistance of the ego characters occurs after Neo 's initial
recruitment by Morpheus ' group . Neo has a meeting with his manager after
arriving late to work . His manager says , ``You have a problem with
authority , Mr . Anderson (The Matrix . Neo is his alias as a computer
hacker his name in the ``real world ' is Thomas Anderson . The manager
tells Mr . Anderson in no uncertain terms that he will lose his job if he
is late again . The manager is an ego defense mechanism attempting to
re-gain control over Neo 's distraction of the intrusion by the
unconscious (Trinity . Ironically , during this scene , window washers are
cleaning the windows on this high-rise building , which distracts Neo .
The window-washing image implies that he is getting some clarity and
that he sees things a bit more clearly .
The stakes are raised higher as AI agents arrive (more ego defenses ) to
take in Mr . Anderson for questioning . Morpheus attempts to help he
calls Neo on a cell phone and attempts to direct him out of the building
before the agents can get to him . This is a conflict between the
unconscious figure represented by Morpheus and the ego defenses
represented by the AI agents .
Neo meets Morpheus face to face . He is a black man and represents a
figure of the shadow , the shadow is a part of the personal unconscious
that retains discarded parts of the personality . Oftentimes the shadow
contains parts of the personality that have not been accepted by
parental or authority figures during childhood . Thus , the shadow tends
to contain aspects that are uncomfortable for persons to face or relate
to . The shadow aspects may be considered immoral from the viewpoint of
the ego , which tends to consider itself of the highest morals . The
shadow binds up personal energy becoming aware of the shadow and
integrating its aspects allows the psyche to free up more psychic
energy . This allows for changes and a broadening of the personality . The
shadow character 's name Morpheus implies change . When Neo meets Morpheus
and chooses to find out what the Matrix is , he is choosing to face his
shadow and to change .
Once Neo physically recovers , he is trained and taught many new skills
by Morpheus ' gang...
 

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