Chapter 3028: Mercury Notes (25)

Although she wished she didn't have a mouth now, Jenna still tried to clear her throat and took a deep breath, making herself calmer, so that she could see more from the handout in front of her.

The handout showed that this was another serial murder case in a group of three. The victims had their reproductive organs removed, and their skin was peeled off, stuffed with straw, and placed in the field, becoming a veritable "scarecrow."

This case was not as long ago as the previous cases that happened decades ago. It happened a few months ago, and the murderer has not been caught yet. That is to say, this is another unsolved case without a conclusion.

A few seconds later, Jenna cleared her train of thought and opened her mouth: "I think the murderer is indeed humiliating them, but not out of his instinctive desire, but for a reason. He is taking revenge."

When it came to this, Jenna paused and explained in detail: "Because... because he stuffed straw into their bodies. This kind of dry straw is usually regarded as useless. He stuffed this thing into their bodies, just to say that their shells are full of waste..."

"Wait a moment, Miss." Schiller frowned slightly and asked, "Is this your true thought?"

Jenna appeared a bit at a loss, but still nodded. Seeing Schiller's bad face, she explained again: "Grain plants are usually regarded as new life and hope in the seedling stage, and represent harvest in the harvest stage. But when the fruitful fruits have been harvested, the remaining dry straw is no longer so valuable..."

Schiller shook his head and said, "No, this is not the real reason why you reached this conclusion. You are just being far-fetched, insisting on finding a logical explanation."

Jenna opened her mouth, but still said, "It's not, I just thought so..."

"Obviously your previous teacher didn't give you good guidance." Schiller put his fingers together and placed them on the table of the podium and said, "His certain words and actions might be implying to you that if there is no logic, you should feel ashamed, so you desperately find a logical explanation that looks barely reasonable to explain your feelings."

"But in fact, we don't need to be like this. Humans established modern society by relying on logic and rational thinking, but much earlier, we formed a society by relying on abundant emotions. Emotions are more instinctive things than logic. There is no distinction between high and low, and no distinction between noble and cheap."

"If you think that the more rational a person is, the more noble they are, then you are denying the value of the existence of countless writers and artists who have created countless romantic epics throughout history. The fact is that reason and sensibility are indispensable, and discarding one while holding up the other is pathological."

Schiller took a light breath and said, "It is inevitable for people to take themselves as a reference and lean towards one side, but as a teacher, I will sincerely encourage you to show your preferences, even if this is inconsistent with my preferences. As long as there is an opinion, it is good."

"So, in my class, you can conduct purely rational arguments, prove that you have a rigorous logical reasoning ability that is interlocking, or you can simply state your feelings, express the emotions you feel when perceiving certain things, regardless of which one is not wrong."

"Does behavioral analysis not need to consider feelings? Of course not. In countless passion murder cases, the murderer's motive is very simple emotion. They are angry, so they kill. They are sad, so they kill. They may even kill because of excitement. If you cannot understand their emotions at all, naturally you cannot lock onto their motives."

"Psychoanalysis is the same. You may think this has no logic, but in fact, the logic of psychoanalysis is internal, existing in the mind of the analyst."

"Different reception of information may lead to different results. When we appear at the scene, we feel the three-dimensional atmosphere, the empathy organs work comprehensively, and naturally, we can get more comprehensive results."

"But if you hold a photo, the things we can analyze are very limited, and even if someone understands the user of psychoanalysis and takes precautions in advance, using lenses or retouching to change certain factors of the photo, we naturally cannot get the correct answer."

"What can be interfered with by various factors is a skill, meaning it has some internal logic. Every link of logic being affected may change the result. What points directly to the result regardless of how it is interfered with is a curse or prophecy, which is completely illogical."

"Being good at behavioral analysis doesn't mean you are slow to feel emotions, but you prefer rigorous reasoning. Being good at psychoanalysis doesn't mean you have no logic, but you prefer to understand others by empathy."

Schiller looked up at Jenna and said, "Every subject is like this. In the world of academia, there is actually no framework that binds you. There may be two kinds of restrictive situations."

"One is that your ability is insufficient, and you can only adopt this method. You can only infer the meaning of straw, so you can only say this. And the other is that you restricted yourself, wrongly estimated the position of the end point, and took a detour."

"Which one do you think you are? Miss?"

Jenna was simply enlightened.

Before, she always felt that psychoanalysis and behavioral analysis were completely separated, because the difference between the two was really too big, and there was no commonality at all. The two sides of the school were also arguing, and both wanted to falsify the other.

But Schiller, who stood in front of her, made her understand why the name Schiller Rodriguez will be engraved in the historical process of psychology, and why he is the true psychology master.

Ultimately, psychology is a discipline that studies human psychology, and human psychology has never been only logic or emotion, but intertwined and interacting with each other.

If you only study one and exclude the other, it is metaphysical, one-sided, and will never achieve academic success.

Only by putting the two on an equal footing, acknowledging that the two interact and act on each other, and deeply understanding that no matter which one is stripped away, it cannot be called psychology, can one win a place for one's name in the hall of psychology.

And Bruce, compared to Schiller, was worse in that he didn't really believe that psychoanalysis existed in the world for a long time.

Like most Batmans, he believed that rigorous reasoning in interlocking rings could be called reasoning. Many times, he ignored the role of emotion and ignored the changes that empathy can bring to people.

As long as he still has doubts about empathizers, or even slight uncertainty, he has no way to go further on the road of psychology.

And Jenna, she originally thought she had to choose one of two paths. She thought she should have the courage to break through herself, so she wanted to jump to the other path.

But now she found that this is not two paths, but one path, but some people treat logic as the road surface and emotion as the handrail, while some people do the opposite.

And for natural empathizers, their empathy ability is the solid road surface under their feet, but this does not mean that they must not be able to borrow any handrail ability.

Nor does it mean that when they hold the handrail, they must be like hanging their feet in the air and not touching the road surface, but should walk while holding the handrail, so that they can walk more steadily and further.

Jenna's mistake was that in order to make her deduction look more logical, she had been walking on the thin and narrow handrail, and she felt she was quite steady.

Unknowingly, seeing Schiller, who is also an empathizer, and students who can use behavioral analysis freely, they all felt that this girl had a sick brain, not walking on a good road, but playing acrobatics there.

But acrobatics are cool after all. Some students who can't walk yet will naturally feel that Jenna is very powerful, which led her to lead many students astray.

The moment Jenna figured it out, her feet fell back to the ground, and she reached out and groped for the handrail. At this moment, she felt that her thinking had never been so stable.

When a car drives to a stable road surface, the next step is naturally to speed up. Jenna's thinking also turned efficiently.

"Alright, Professor, I understand. Can I take back my previous words and say them again?"

"Of course, you always have a chance, Miss."

"I think we should start with the duty of the scarecrow. When the scarecrow was invented, it was to look after a piece of farmland to prevent grain from being pecked by birds like crows. This has a strong symbolic meaning, and it is also the main reason why this murderer chose the scarecrow as the theme."

"The victims must all be law enforcers. Their role and status in human society are like scarecrows guarding an area in the field, preventing evildoers from committing crimes."

"And the biggest difference between law enforcers and ordinary people is that they possess weapons that ordinary people don't have. Their duty is to use violence to maintain social stability."

"So the murderer removed their reproductive organs, which represents that he confiscated their weapons. He believes that they did not perform their duties well, so naturally, they are not worthy of possessing weapons."

"He is satirizing them. He made them into scarecrows and put them in the field, which is saying to the bystanders, if they, as humans, cannot look after the area they are responsible for, then go be scarecrows and watch this grain."

"I observed obvious pecking marks on the skin that was removed and sent to the forensic doctor in the photo, so this has a deeper layer of mockery, because the crows that most often appear in the fields are omnivorous birds. The smell emitted by skin decay will attract them instead. They will use sharp bird beaks to tear off the skin that is still intact as their food."

"Scarecrows will attract crows instead, which is actually hinting that many crimes in society are caused by law enforcers. They are not only incompetent, but also the root of darkness and crime."

"The above are all conclusions I obtained through observing photos and conducting common sense analysis. And if we talk about the murderer's own emotions, he is angry, mocking, looking at them are just the most superficial and shallow emotions. I think what is most worth exploring is some humiliation emotions."

"Normally, if a person is treated unfairly by law enforcers and makes these people into scarecrows, besides anger and hatred, they will either show the happiness of revenge, or the pleasure of the abuser's instinct, but this murderer is not like this."

"The pleasure of revenge comes from the avenger bringing into the victim's perspective, experiencing the pain before they die, and then feeling that they have achieved revenge. The pleasure of the abuser comes from bringing into the murderer, releasing the cruel and violent part of the personality, making him feel happy."

"But this murderer brings into the perspective of the scarecrow. He feels that he is forcibly stuffed into a certain space, and something is tightly wrapping and binding him, making him feel powerless and humiliated."

"And it is because these things bind him that he can only do this to this extent. He treats the serial murder case as an artistic behavior, and he thinks that if there were no such restrictions, he should have created better works of art."

"Combined with the current social situation, I think what restricts and binds him might be his personal financial situation."

"Looking at the current social situation, I think what limits and binds him might be his personal financial situation."