| Pink Floyd, "The Wall" is a perfect movie for explaining and showing the "symptom imperative" and Sarno's principles. The psychological "Wall" is composed of many bricks used to hide painful thoughts and memories. In the movie, the main character's father is killed in WWII, and flashbacks are used to show the painful reflections of childhood w/o a father. The character is then traumatized and haunted by the death of his mother, and a failed marriage in which his wife "abandons"/leaves him for another man. The mind uses various psychological bricks to distract such as drugs, displaced anger, and materialism. The most interesting and powerful "brick" imho, is shown when the character becomes militaristic and falls into the trap of distraction via ideology and routine. As crazy as it may sound, I feel this militaristic state is analagous to the ordinary man's daily routine at work. I have personally experienced many painful symptoms(from back pain to chancor sores) upon starting a vacation. When the brick(distraction/routine) of work is removed, another brick must be substituted to hide what's behind the wall. As Sarno has explained, the only solution is to try to look and observe the contents in the subconscious. This in effect, tears down "The Wall". Back pain is just another brick in The Wall! Some of you will probably say I'm nuts to draw this comparison, but I think the movie, Pink Floyd and Sarno are all genious operating on the same level or plane. |
The Wall
Posted - 09/02/2008 : 21:11:30
