Chapter 3605: Injustice League (5)

The relationship between the three giants of the Justice League is actually very worth exploring. Usually, people always talk about the relationship between Batman and Superman, while ignoring Wonder Woman.

But in fact, Wonder Woman in most universes plays the role of a binder. Because to some extent, she is the oldest and most mature one in the team, so she naturally tends to mediate conflicts and maintain the stability of the team.

"Injustice League" is like showing us what would happen "if Wonder Woman were the most immature person in the team." Undoubtedly, the relationship between Batman and Superman deteriorated to an irredeemable point.

Still the same sentence, in the process of the whole thing, they actually had many opportunities to sit down and talk, and shake hands and make peace. But unfortunately, Wonder Woman, who should have acted as a mediator, was arching fire in the middle as if she were crazy, eventually leading to the conflict being irredeemable.

Maybe many people are curious: what exactly is the standard for maturity and immaturity? How can a person be considered mature?

But in fact, in psychology, there is no specific standard for maturity. In psychology, there are only healthy and unhealthy states.

That is to say, a person doesn't need to be mature; they just need to be healthy. Even if they are very immature, as long as their psychological state doesn't affect their daily life, it's not a disease, and there's no need to pursue so-called maturity.

But there is a very important concept in psychology, which is "regression." Many people often hear "degenerative lesions," so what exactly is regression?

Regression is a typical unhealthy state. It not only affects people's daily life and makes people feel painful, but it may also affect others.

Wonder Woman in "Injustice League" presents a very typical state of regression. One of the typical manifestations of this state is "dependence on sense of existence."

Perhaps many people who have raised children or seen other people's children will find that children always want to attract adults' attention all the time, and sometimes they don't even realize it themselves, but they just deliberately make some noise to let adults notice them.

Psychology and various social sciences currently understand this phenomenon as an instinct in human evolution. Children who can better attract adults' attention can survive better.

Human childhood has a period of 5-10 years of dependence on sense of existence. Specific manifestations are: being very sensitive to others' attention, almost noticing others' gaze immediately; being very keen on proving one's existence and strengthening the sense of existence; at the same time, the sense of shame is reduced—as long as you can make a noise to attract people, you don't care even if you act strangely or make a fool of yourself.

This is not that children are crazy; this is a normal growth stage. Everyone will have such a period of time more or less, it's just that it might be forgotten with growth.

From the perspective of psychoanalysis, the state of dependence on sense of existence in childhood is a manifestation of personality actively exploring outward. They want to determine what kind of reaction the world will give them through various behaviors, and then reflect these truthfully in their own personality, just like looking in a mirror.

What kind of response the surrounding environment gives them, to a large extent, they will give what kind of response to the people around them; this influence may even accompany them for a lifetime.

For example, when children want to prove their sense of existence, if parents respond to them very patiently and give them enough attention, it will help children understand the relationship between attention and response. And if parents don't respond or simply scold them, their understanding of the relationship between attention and response will be very weak. This will lead to the fact that in their personality, they cannot establish the necessary relationship between attention and response.

The evil consequences this will bring are: either they don't adapt to attention, even normal attention will make them feel exposed, thus wanting to avoid it; or they are too dull, very slow to respond to others' signals of needing attention, and even simply cannot feel it.

Either they don't know how to respond, don't know to what extent they should respond to others' attention, and responding too intensely or not responding at all are both possible.

And the regressive dependence on sense of existence produced by adults is often about the same as in childhood. But after all, they are adults, and everyone thinks they are mature enough, so no one will treat them as children, so the harm they can produce is naturally greater.

For example, Wonder Woman in "Injustice League," from the surface, many things she does have no reason at all, it seems to be purely evil, such as sowing discord, such as arching fire. But in fact, this is a pathological state of regressive dependence on sense of existence.

Doing so has no actual benefit to her. Her heart can realize that Superman will not love her because of this. But for a child, interest itself is not important; what they want is attention.

Said before, children in this period will have symptoms of reduced sense of shame. This symptom is only because in childhood, they haven't been subjected to too much social moral discipline. And for adults, besides the reduced sense of shame, moral sense will also be reduced. Simply put, it is to do whatever it takes to attract eyeballs.

From the beginning, Wonder Woman stood on Superman's side. Of course, it can't be said that supporting Superman is wrong, but it is also from the beginning that her support for Superman is not for Superman's good, but entirely for herself.

If she were for Superman's good, she should have persuaded Superman instead. Because anyone can see how painful it is for Superman to break with Batman. Even to reduce this pain, she should have acted as a go-between to let them make peace. After all, the dead cannot be resurrected, and things have already happened. Breaking with Batman, besides letting Superman lose his best friend while losing his lover, has no benefit. Any normal adult can think of this point.

But Wonder Woman in "Injustice League" didn't choose to do so. This proves that her starting point is absolutely not for Superman's good, but entirely for herself.

The way she gains a sense of existence from Superman is by blindly agreeing with Superman. No matter what extreme emotions Superman produces because of stimulation, she unconditionally agrees. This way Superman's attention will always be on her.

And at the same time, she is also using this method to constantly gain Batman's attention. Because Batman wants to stop Superman, he has to win her over, so Batman's attention will also be on her.

In order to gain attention, she constantly provokes the two sides without any moral bottom line. For this, she doesn't even hesitate to act like a clown, spreading bad words back and forth, and doesn't even have a little sense of shame.

Therefore, dealing with Wonder Woman in "Injustice League" cannot be like dealing with other Wonder Women, talking to her about morality, bottom lines, and justice. Because in order to gain attention, she can completely abandon these things.

It can even be said that without anyone forcing her, she can lower her bottom line very low by herself, just like a bear child.

Many people feel disgusted when seeing this Wonder Woman because she clearly has an adult's body and identity, but uses it to do things that only a few-year-old child would do: spreading words back and forth, arching fire back and forth, telling this one that that one is bad, telling that one that this one is bad; whatever someone does, she has to stir it up on the side; once something happens, she is the first to tell the teacher; not only harming others to be scolded, but also wanting to clear herself—isn't this the performance of the most common trouble-maker in elementary school?

So, what is the best way to deal with such people? Since her symptom is called dependence on sense of existence, the best way to deal with her is deprivation of sense of existence.

It's not that you don't give her a sense of existence, because if she had never gained a sense of existence, perhaps she could adapt to a low-pleasure life. But if she has always been in an excited state, but is suddenly withdrawn, she will feel painful, and even become crazy. It's the same principle as drug addiction.

And the best way to give others a sense of existence is to make the other party feel that they are special. If you give everyone an average of 10, then even if you give her 10, she won't feel satisfied, because your attention is divided equally among everyone, and she is not special.

If you give everyone 1, but give her 9, then even if it's still less than the average score, the pleasure she gains is still stronger than when it's divided equally.

So Bruce said Wonder Woman is special as soon as he came up. Although this is a bit straightforward and shallow, she just eats this set.

It can even be said that the more crude and straightforward it is, the happier she is. Because there obviously isn't anyone so straightforward in the Justice League. Originally Superman counted as one, but after all, he just suffered a misfortune, and the little attention he could spare was pitifully little. Earth is full of disasters, and no one has time to watch Wonder Woman's performance.

And when people from other universes came, they gave her sufficient attention; can she not be happy?

However, this is not pure attention and praise. Bruce has put quite a lot of poison in it.

First of all, the Batman and Wonder Woman in this universe are just ordinary comrades, and haven't developed any extra feelings. Then it's normal for Bruce, who is Batman, to pay more attention to Catwoman, who has a thing with Batman, right?

Secondly, although you are also Wonder Woman, we also have a Wonder Woman in our own universe, and she is my real comrade and friend. It's normal for me to pay more attention to her, right?

Finally, although the Batman and Superman in your universe have broken up, I am still good friends with the Superman in our universe. It's no problem for me to pay more attention to him, right?

Whether from emotion or logic, people from other universes have no reason to pay more attention to Wonder Woman. But Bruce just pays attention to her as soon as he comes up, which gives her an illusion, that is "I am indeed special."

Look, he has so many people worth caring about, but he still cares about me first; that must be because I am very special.

And at this time, when Bruce pays attention to others according to normal logic, Wonder Woman will feel that something has been snatched away by others.

Although she knows in her reason that it's no problem for people to talk to people in their own universe, she just feels uncomfortable. Because she once gained attention for no reason, which proved her specialness, so she naturally wants to gain more by virtue of this specialness.

For example, Bruce makes her feel that she is special, so she feels that she can gain Clark's attention by virtue of this specialness, and then Oliver or Hal. She wants to make their attention all on her.

But she knows in her reason that this is impossible. People are a family after all, and naturally they are closer to each other. Then what can she do?

If they are not so close to the other side, they will naturally be close to her. Then she will naturally want to provoke the outsiders just like she provoked Batman and Superman.

And in the process of provoking their relationship, one person is very important, and that is the Wonder Woman of the other universe, Diana. As long as she is there, people from the opposite universe will naturally be closer to their own counterparts, because they are the same person. No matter what she does, she cannot replace her position.

Wonder Woman radiated astonishing malice toward Diana, perhaps she didn't even realize it herself. But all of this was seen by Clark. ===== CHAPTER 3606 =====

Wonder Woman radiated astonishing malice toward Diana, perhaps without even realizing it herself. But Clark saw it all.