Bowen家庭系统理论视域下的《死亡诗社》自杀解码

Suicide Decoding of Dead Poets Society under the Perspective of Bowen’s Family System Theory

美国电影《死亡诗社》讲述了发生在一所私立预备学院的故事,这所学院以培养能够进入常春藤名校的优秀学子为目标。在该学院的封闭的教育中,主人公尼尔在接触到基廷老师带来的自由思考的新思想后,积极寻找人生价值、突破自我,但最终迫于父亲反对的压力选择自杀。本文用Bowen家庭系统理论从自我分化、三角关系、多代传承分析尼尔在低分化度的家庭系统中,走上自杀道路的原因以及在该背景下如何化解亲子冲突。

The American movie Dead Poets Society is set in a private preparatory college which aims at cultivating outstanding students to enter Ivy League schools.Neil Perry,one of the main characters in this movie,actively seeks the value of life and breaks out of his shell after being exposed to the new thoughts of free-thinking inspired by Mr.Keating in the closed education environment.However,he commits suicide after the disapproval from his father.This article analyses the reasons why Neil chooses to kill himself and how to resolve parent-child conflict in a family with low-differentiation from self-differentiation,triangle and multigenerational transmission process of Bowen’s family system theory.