On superheroes and their mafia: Using The Lego Batman Movie to explain relational aspects of narcissism.

Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Epub Date: 2022-02-18 DOI:10.1177/10398562221075195

Meredith Stone

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Objective: Contemporary social discourse often emphasises the role of popular culture in the emergence of narcissistic disturbances. That the very same popular culture might be uniquely positioned to explain narcissism has been less explored. This article is part of a discussion series developed to teach registrars psychoanalytic concepts through the medium of film. It explores the depiction of narcissism in the 2017 The Lego Batman Movie.

Conclusions: Surprisingly for its genre, Lego Batman does not reify pejorative archetypes but rather draws out the relational genesis of Batman's narcissism. The film closely aligns with an object-relations view and can help challenge the tendency, even among psychiatrists, to emphasise the self-importance in narcissistic disorders over underlying object-related conflicts. Furthermore, with its striking audio-visual techniques, the film both enlivens and distils complex psychoanalytic concepts and therapeutic processes for a general psychiatry audience.

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关于超级英雄和他们的黑手党:用乐高蝙蝠侠电影来解释自恋的关系方面。

目的:当代社会话语经常强调流行文化在自恋障碍出现中的作用。同样的流行文化可能在解释自恋方面具有独特的地位，但这方面的研究却很少。本文是一系列讨论的一部分，旨在通过电影媒介向注册者传授精神分析概念。它探讨了2017年《乐高蝙蝠侠电影》中对自恋的描述。结论:令人惊讶的是，《乐高蝙蝠侠》并没有将贬低的原型具体化，而是描绘了蝙蝠侠自恋的关系起源。这部电影与客体关系的观点密切一致，可以帮助挑战一种倾向，即使在精神病学家中，也强调自恋障碍中的自我重要性，而不是潜在的客体相关冲突。此外，凭借其惊人的视听技术，这部电影为普通精神病学观众生动和提炼了复杂的精神分析概念和治疗过程。

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