[Edit 10 April 2022] As for new viewers, I'm terribly sorry but please watch this analysis video by clicking this link. It will take you to my Google drive: drive.google.com/file/d/1P_4NyzH9TmZjj8p6EQ52Iw-trVjv2GsP/view?usp=sharing. The reason is that on March 28 and April 6 of 2022, Kadokawa has copyright claimed a huge portion of this video. Instead of deleting the entire video, I was forced to trim out around 90% of the 16 minutes video. This really sucks because there were no issues when I first uploaded it. In fact, this video had no issues for more than a year. Thanks to all of you who have supported this video thus far! Really sorry for this ;-; i will probably make a new NHK video sometime in the future to compensate for this. As for now, this is what I can do. . . . [Original Comment] Have a late Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year guys! Thanks for the long wait, it took me around 4-5 weeks just to write the script because of the heavy theories of Jacques Lacan. I will be taking a break from any analysis videos since it requires a lot of time and energy, for the meantime I will do short KiwicReviews to compensate for that. Welcome to the NHK is definitely a very personal anime for a lot of people, but I don't want viewers who watched the show to become more depressed or anxious. After watching NHK, even I felt hopeless and got some funny ideas in my head...But hopefully, through this video, I hope that people can move forward in life. It doesn't matter if you think you are the lowest of society like Satou, it doesn't matter how many failures that you have gone through because psychoanalysis and NHK showed that your imperfection and failure is the very condition for progress and triumph. Humans are the imperfections that work.
You should have just kept up the video and ate the copy right claim. It still would have driven traffic for your page I liked the complete video by the way
I've included the books that I've referenced for this video in the description if you wanna check it out. As for psychoanalysis, I follow the works of Jacques Lacan who had reinterpreted Sigmund Freud's theories. The reason is that Freud did not know what he had discovered and often misunderstood his own theories. Lacan reinterpreted Freud by using a lot of different fields such as linguistics, anthropology, mathematics and philosophy. An example I can give you is that Freud tried to make psychoanalysis a science or a psychology. e.g the classic Freudian model of the psyche: id, ego, superego. Mainstream interpretation of this Freudian model in psychology and psychiatry university classes always make Freud look like an idiot. They might say, "there is no such thing as an unconscious" or "Biology does not prove the existence of the id and superego". However, psychoanalysis can never be a science because it is not one. It's a field on it's own and making it a science will only make it a pseudoscience like many critics have pointed out. For Lacan, psychoanalysis is neither a science or psychology. Furthermore, the unconscious for Freud is not something "deep" or substantial. It is empty and it is not found inside of you, it can be found outside in your speech. The philosopher Slavoj Zizek goes into more detail in his book on How To Read Lacan (2006) that I have mentioned below. I can recommend you four books that might serve as an introduction to psychoanalysis: •A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1920) by Sigmund Freud •How To Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek (2006) •The Lacanian Subject: between language and Jouissance by Bruce Fink (1995) •The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan (This one is extremely difficult and I think you need some academic help and extensive research. I suggest you explore the works of Derek Hook, Bruce Fink and Slavoj Zizek beforehand) I hope these will help you get into psychoanalytic theory. I wish you will have a great time learning it because it is really insightful and useful to understand the paradoxes of our society. This is more relevant especially since we are living in an ongoing global pandemic. Anyway, I wish you all the best to your studies and thank you for watching this video!
Wait, if Misaki's mom's suicide destroyed the big other for Misaki, then why did she write the note? Are you saying that it's her trying really hard to posit the big other even if she actually believes her act to be pointless?
Yes I have mentioned before that we need a figure of the big Other to be mentally stable and carry on with our lives. The big Other is a way to ensure that we know we exist and have meaning in the world. It is a way of self-recognition in the Hegelian sense of the term. This is also parallel to Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectics which also inspired Lacan's theory of the mirror stage. I did not explain the latter in this video because it would have taken a lot of time. Initially, I thought that Misaki wrote the note for Satou to help her. But I think a better interpretation would be that she wrote it for the big Other, a kind of God that will save her from suicide. She thought that this was the final and only way to ensure that there must have been some God in the world, otherwise if God truly exist then he is an evil son of a bitch that causes unnecessary suffering. What I find really beautiful in the last episode of NHK is that it was Satou who saved Misaki, it wasn't God. Hence, I stated that it was not the big Other who saved Misaki, but a small other. Whenever I use the term Other, it is strictly Lacanian. In Lacanian theory, there is a big difference between Other and other. The former relates to the symbolic register, hence it is the big Other; a virtual entity. The latter is simply us, human beings, hence limited to the imaginary register. Once again I did not mention the famous three registers in Lacanian psychoanalysis in this video: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real. The reason is that it is too complicated and even if I explain it, it wouldn't make any sense at all. But you can definitely read more about this from the books that I have referenced in the description.
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[Edit 10 April 2022]
As for new viewers, I'm terribly sorry but please watch this analysis video by clicking this link. It will take you to my Google drive: drive.google.com/file/d/1P_4NyzH9TmZjj8p6EQ52Iw-trVjv2GsP/view?usp=sharing.
The reason is that on March 28 and April 6 of 2022, Kadokawa has copyright claimed a huge portion of this video. Instead of deleting the entire video, I was forced to trim out around 90% of the 16 minutes video. This really sucks because there were no issues when I first uploaded it. In fact, this video had no issues for more than a year. Thanks to all of you who have supported this video thus far! Really sorry for this ;-; i will probably make a new NHK video sometime in the future to compensate for this. As for now, this is what I can do.
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[Original Comment] Have a late Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year guys! Thanks for the long wait, it took me around 4-5 weeks just to write the script because of the heavy theories of Jacques Lacan. I will be taking a break from any analysis videos since it requires a lot of time and energy, for the meantime I will do short KiwicReviews to compensate for that. Welcome to the NHK is definitely a very personal anime for a lot of people, but I don't want viewers who watched the show to become more depressed or anxious. After watching NHK, even I felt hopeless and got some funny ideas in my head...But hopefully, through this video, I hope that people can move forward in life. It doesn't matter if you think you are the lowest of society like Satou, it doesn't matter how many failures that you have gone through because psychoanalysis and NHK showed that your imperfection and failure is the very condition for progress and triumph. Humans are the imperfections that work.
You should have just kept up the video and ate the copy right claim. It still would have driven traffic for your page
I liked the complete video by the way
Using this analysis of NHK to understand psychoanalysis for uni rn, great video
Your videos are so thought provoking , thanks for making them
I love your analysis. It reminds me a lot of psychological theories that I hardly remember way back then. It is a eye opener too I think. :)
Thank you very much! ;)
Loved the video ❤️
After watching your video, I'd like to dive more into psychoanalysis. Where or what should I start with?
I've included the books that I've referenced for this video in the description if you wanna check it out. As for psychoanalysis, I follow the works of Jacques Lacan who had reinterpreted Sigmund Freud's theories. The reason is that Freud did not know what he had discovered and often misunderstood his own theories. Lacan reinterpreted Freud by using a lot of different fields such as linguistics, anthropology, mathematics and philosophy. An example I can give you is that Freud tried to make psychoanalysis a science or a psychology. e.g the classic Freudian model of the psyche: id, ego, superego. Mainstream interpretation of this Freudian model in psychology and psychiatry university classes always make Freud look like an idiot. They might say, "there is no such thing as an unconscious" or "Biology does not prove the existence of the id and superego".
However, psychoanalysis can never be a science because it is not one. It's a field on it's own and making it a science will only make it a pseudoscience like many critics have pointed out. For Lacan, psychoanalysis is neither a science or psychology. Furthermore, the unconscious for Freud is not something "deep" or substantial. It is empty and it is not found inside of you, it can be found outside in your speech. The philosopher Slavoj Zizek goes into more detail in his book on How To Read Lacan (2006) that I have mentioned below.
I can recommend you four books that might serve as an introduction to psychoanalysis:
•A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1920) by Sigmund Freud
•How To Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek (2006)
•The Lacanian Subject: between language and Jouissance by Bruce Fink (1995)
•The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan (This one is extremely difficult and I think you need some academic help and extensive research. I suggest you explore the works of Derek Hook, Bruce Fink and Slavoj Zizek beforehand)
I hope these will help you get into psychoanalytic theory. I wish you will have a great time learning it because it is really insightful and useful to understand the paradoxes of our society. This is more relevant especially since we are living in an ongoing global pandemic. Anyway, I wish you all the best to your studies and thank you for watching this video!
@@kiwicfruit Thank you!
great video
This is the only analysis of Welcome to the NHK that I'll accept. Everything else is just child's play. 5/5 stars rating
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Something weird is happening. The video is only 1:14 long?
Oh nvm I read the comments
You make me wonder who you are
;)
Wait, if Misaki's mom's suicide destroyed the big other for Misaki, then why did she write the note? Are you saying that it's her trying really hard to posit the big other even if she actually believes her act to be pointless?
Yes I have mentioned before that we need a figure of the big Other to be mentally stable and carry on with our lives. The big Other is a way to ensure that we know we exist and have meaning in the world. It is a way of self-recognition in the Hegelian sense of the term. This is also parallel to Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectics which also inspired Lacan's theory of the mirror stage. I did not explain the latter in this video because it would have taken a lot of time.
Initially, I thought that Misaki wrote the note for Satou to help her. But I think a better interpretation would be that she wrote it for the big Other, a kind of God that will save her from suicide. She thought that this was the final and only way to ensure that there must have been some God in the world, otherwise if God truly exist then he is an evil son of a bitch that causes unnecessary suffering.
What I find really beautiful in the last episode of NHK is that it was Satou who saved Misaki, it wasn't God. Hence, I stated that it was not the big Other who saved Misaki, but a small other. Whenever I use the term Other, it is strictly Lacanian. In Lacanian theory, there is a big difference between Other and other. The former relates to the symbolic register, hence it is the big Other; a virtual entity. The latter is simply us, human beings, hence limited to the imaginary register.
Once again I did not mention the famous three registers in Lacanian psychoanalysis in this video: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real. The reason is that it is too complicated and even if I explain it, it wouldn't make any sense at all. But you can definitely read more about this from the books that I have referenced in the description.