PFC Chapter 2269 Gotham Music Chapter (8)
Chapter 2269 Gotham Music Chapter (8)
Chapter 2269 Gotham Music Festival (VIII)
Just as I was talking about this, the waiter of the restaurant came over and said with a smile: "We will start serving food in 20 minutes. Please confirm your seat in 10 minutes and we will serve the products according to the number of people."
Schiller nodded to them, then looked at Arthur and said with a smile: "It seems that we can't let that rich man bleed any more, but fortunately it's less than an hour, so count it as one hour."
Arthur smiled back at him.
"But it's only one hour's consultation fee anyway, so we can finish this conversation as soon as possible so that you can have more time to do other things."
Arthur didn't object. He just sat there without saying anything, as if to say, just take care of everything.
"Of course, please don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be perfunctory with you. In fact, it's just my duty to ask patients routine questions. You have to give those people who can't graduate from college the illusion that their consultation fees are worth it. I don't need this."
Arthur tilted his head.
"You're already cured, Arthur." Schiller placed his forearm on the table, leaned forward, looked into Arthur's eyes and said, "You've been cured since the moment you became a clown."
"Your illness has never been cruel, violent or crazy. Those are symptoms that only born perverts have. You are an ordinary person."
"People often say that anyone can become a clown after a bad day, but the truth is the average person after a bad day, a lot of bad days, a lot of bad years, will just want to commit suicide."
"It takes a lot of courage and willpower to firmly hold the view that 'it's anyone's fault, not mine'. It even requires talent. Either you are born thinking this way, or it is almost impossible to cultivate this mentality later in life."
"Even if you show this attitude on the surface, you must be torn between extreme resentment towards yourself and society in your heart. It is simply not something that ordinary people can do to pour out all their resentment towards the latter."
"In the first half of your life, your balance was too much tilted forward, just like every ordinary person. Although you would shirk responsibility, blame others and the social environment, in the end you still attributed it to yourself, began to doubt yourself, pull yourself back, and consume yourself."
"This is the root cause of most ordinary people's mental illness. Their abilities make them do too many things wrong, but they don't have the firm willpower to blame all their mistakes on society, so they feel regretful, frustrated, shaken, and even depressed."
"Imagine, if there was an inevitable rule in this world that everyone who had a bad day would become a clown, would the world still be as bad as it is now? Would they dare to be so bad?"
"It's just that without such rules, most ordinary people who have had a bad day would choose to hide back home and feel sad on their own. Even if one in ten people will become clowns and do the same thing as you, humans would not dare to build a society like this."
"That's why I said you're cured, because you've finally thrown those heavy weights that were placed on you to the other side. You've finally started to learn to push the blame onto others and attribute your misfortune to society."
"You don't think it's their fault," Arthur said, narrowing his eyes.
"Not entirely." Schiller replied very calmly: "You know that you have made mistakes that have nothing to do with environmental factors. We all make them because it is almost inevitable. No matter whether it is an ordinary person or a genius like Bruce Wayne, it is impossible to be completely right all the time."
"I have to admit that if you could really make every choice perfectly regardless of environmental factors, then perhaps your life would not be like this, but this is an invalid assumption, because if your life is already a tragedy, it is almost impossible for you to make the right choice."
"So in the final analysis, it's still their fault?" Arthur leaned back in his chair, leaving only one hand on the edge of the table.
"Yes, but a person's life is an extremely complex proposition. Your choices and society's choices are intertwined to form who you are today. Objectively speaking, it doesn't really matter who made more mistakes. This is not the scope of psychology."
"What we want to discuss is who you actively attribute your failures in life to. Most normal people would say, although I am not that good, it is not entirely my fault that I am so bad now. This is a relatively healthy idea."
"Although it is possible that he is really a bad person and the tragedy in his life is all his own fault, it is also possible that he is actually very good and it is not his fault at all. However, if he looks at this issue more neutrally, he can keep his mentality balanced and avoid falling into depression due to excessive self-blame or excessively blaming the external environment, which leads to a lack of objective judgment of himself."
"As long as you think for a moment, 'Why am I the only one who is so bad when everyone else is good?' or 'Why am I the only one who is so bad?', it proves that your subjective attribution scale is tilted towards yourself. If you think, 'This is how my life is' or 'I deserve to live this way', it proves that the scale has tilted to an extremely dangerous degree."
Arthur looked away again, and no one knew if he had ever really thought of this for a moment.
"And when you become the Joker, you kill those who mock you, and tell the world that no one cares about you, no one loves you, and it is their indifference that has made you what you are today. You will take revenge on this unfair society, which proves that your scale is finally balanced."
"Isn't it leaning too far to the other side?" Arthur asked again.
Schiller reached out as if to take a pen from his chest pocket, then realized that he was not wearing a doctor's uniform and there were no chest pockets, so he had to withdraw his hand, put it back on the table and spoke.
"This requires a specific analysis of each case. In addition to considering morality and personal feelings, we must also..."
"You said you'd keep it brief."
"Then from the perspective of social morality alone..."
“No talk of morality.”
"That person's feelings..."
"No emotions either."
Schiller seemed a little helpless, and Arthur finally started his counterattack. He put his forearms on the table like Schiller did before, leaned forward and looked at Schiller and asked: "What do you think of my criminal behavior?"
"You know that regular psychotherapy sessions are recorded, right?"
"Of course, but I don't..."
"I care."
Arthur was stunned at first, but suddenly reacted and looked at Schiller, staring straight into those calm and determined eyes.
"I am a doctor and you are a patient who is seeking my advice. We should talk as little as possible about my personal opinions and more about your condition. You come here for treatment and I am here to help you see yourself more, not to spy on me."
Arthur and Bruce, who was eavesdropping on the side, both frowned. Arthur because of Schiller's attitude, while Bruce found that Schiller's greedy personality made him more cautious in this regard. Was it because he was often in a place with normal social order?
If he was arrogant, he would just say, I don’t care if you killed someone. First, the person you killed has nothing to do with me. Second, you who killed someone has nothing to do with me.
One person died in this world, but there are always people dying in this world. One person is going to jail in this world, but there are too many people going to jail in this world. What is there to care about?
But Greed did not express his own opinions from beginning to end, and was obviously avoiding certain statements that touched upon the law and morality, and seemed to be accustomed to protecting himself under the law.
This is not surprising. In Gotham, one person's death is nothing. Even in the Gotham where Arthur is, dozens of murders occur in public places every day, and people have long been numb.
Murder is not even a popular topic here, it is just one of the topics of daily conversation. Serial murders involving more than five people can barely make the front page, and terrorist attacks that kill at least 5 people are likely to make the headlines.
So the people here don't care about talking about this kind of thing. Even if you tell Gordon in front of him how many people you have killed, he won't arrest you based on this. After all, if he does that, Gotham would just be turned into an entire prison.
But in places other than Gotham, especially those where social order is still stable and the law is very effective, in short, in a civilized society, people must be careful in what they say and do, and any opinions expressed on a murder case may become evidence in court in the future.
So even though these things have never disappeared and people are always talking about them, they can always find the most appropriate attitude to express their feelings implicitly, but perfectly avoid possible accountability in the future.
Of course Arthur reacted. He wanted to say that he didn't care about the recording at all. He had already committed murder and the court had already sentenced him. What was there that he couldn't talk about?
But Schiller said he cared, which proves that if he really talked about the homicide from a personal perspective, it would probably not be a point of view that the law would like. Then what other point of view could the law not like?
This hint is too obscure, and the attitude is ambiguous and subtle. You can say he said something, but in the final analysis he said nothing. You can say he expressed his opinion, but in the final analysis he didn't have any opinion.
"You look a lot like the lawyer who defended me before," Arthur commented.
"The behavior is commendable, but I cannot agree with the professional level," Schiller said, shaking his head.
Arthur felt that he was hinting at something. Although it seemed that he was saying that the fact that poor murderers also had defense lawyers reflected the fairness of the law, my professional level was different from his.
But it also sounds a bit like I think you are innocent, so someone should defend you, and it's a pity that he couldn't get you off the hook.
The difference between these two meanings is huge, and it can even be said that they are two completely opposite attitudes. The former stands on the side of the law, while the latter completely despises the law.
There is no evidence in this short sentence to prove what Schiller meant. All we can say is that you just listen to what he said, and then you keep silent.
Arthur reviewed everything Schiller had said before and found that what Schiller said made a lot of sense and his analysis was very clear. The so-called emotional illness caused by subjective attribution and the balance theory were both well-founded and very easy to understand.
Two main conclusions were drawn: one was that Arthur was an ordinary person, and the other was that Arthur's condition was improving.
The method used is indeed psychoanalysis, which accurately points out some of Arthur's frustrating thoughts before he became the Joker, and gradually goes deeper into the attribution theory from the theory of ordinary people. Even an ordinary person Arthur can, through this psychotherapy, identify where his problems lie and how to adjust.
This was a perfectly normal psychotherapy session from a psychiatrist, the only problem being that it didn't seem quite like Schiller.
This does not involve any analysis of Arthur's personality. It can be said that it is completely based on the facts and is aimed at finding out the cause of the disease. He is really treating the disease seriously.
The question is when Schiller ever seriously treated illness.
His words that seem like psychological counseling are actually just a prelude to breaking down other people's defenses. The effectiveness of his words depends on whether others break down after being told what he says. People have long had a consensus that Schiller's psychotherapy is like the beeping sound before a bomb explodes.
So he's actually a psychiatrist?!
(End of this chapter)