2020/07/15 Tetsuo's Cosmic Rebirth
Tetsuo's story is one of healing. Of rebirth. A story of overcoming his complex, of overcoming the corrupt darkness, of parting the clouds in his heart with divine light.
Neo Tokyo is a corrupt den of scoundrels. Civilsation has peaked under this system, and without room to grow, society becomes ill. The inevitable culmination of a Neo-Chinese regime. The complex Tetsuo has formed of Kaneda has impeded his development as a person - his individuation - for too long. Like Neo-Tokyo, Tetsuo forgot the will to grow, to become, and has instead stagnated: a child.
Tetsuo's negative Kaneda-complex tore him apart in violent neurosis. Only a vision of god - the image of what Jung called the self - could save Tetsuo. The self across time has arrived in societies under many names. Christians call the self Jesus. But the people of Neo-Tokyo named him Akira. The collective image who will save the diseased, neurotic society. The image of psychic wholeness which will bring both Neo-Tokyo and Tetsuo's psyche into health. Lead both back on track to psychic growth, to individuation, Akira.
The complex - itself an orb - is acracked. Unpiped, veins and arteries flailed asunder, departed from their host. Neuro-reroutings to this pulsating psychic tumour, this thief of psychic energy, this complex, fall as Tetsuo comes into consciousness of his condition. In search of wholeness, the nut was cracked, revealing nothing but brain. The analysed royal nous. The numino-futurist truth. Beneath psychis is physis.
The neurosis caused by Tetsuo's inferiority-complex became too much. Growing powerful in his mind, his complex became aligned with his ego, leading to ego-inflation. Tetsuo, to whom the world was now beholden, had discovered the power of the self.
His destiny was now twined with the stars: the cosmos. He had a vision of true god - the god image which resides in each man. The very image of healing. Thinking Akira had chosen him, his ego only inflated ever more in a Thanatotic frenzy. But the power Akira holds is far stronger than any body can hold. Ego-inflation, confidence at holding back this new found power of Akira, was critically undermined. The powers of the unconscious, of the self, of the body, of Akira, proved to be far greater than he could have ever known.
Only through a cosmic rebirth can the complex be overcome. Only through death can birth happen again. Neo-Tokyo's rebirth occurs in the baptismal font of the ocean, buildings eroded by pneumatic winds of the coming age. The dark clouds of cultural neurosis pass in Neo-Tokyo, blessed by the new sun; its stunted growth now unimpeded to bloom anew. Tetsuo's stunted personality - the Tetsuo possessed by Kaneda's spirit - has died too. The holy cleansing light of Akira, the radiant rays of god, the emanations of the one, psychic wholeness, the mandala, the self. The perfect orb. White and pristine. The egg of the future. Neo-Tokyo is washed aclean. Tetsuo is healed anew.
The complex - itself an orb - is acracked. Unpiped, veins and arteries flailed asunder, departed from their host. Neuro-reroutings to this pulsating psychic tumour, this thief of psychic energy, this complex, fall as Tetsuo comes into consciousness of his condition. In search of wholeness, the nut was cracked, revealing nothing but brain. The analysed royal nous. The numino-futurist truth. Beneath psychis is physis.
The neurosis caused by Tetsuo's inferiority-complex became too much. Growing powerful in his mind, his complex became aligned with his ego, leading to ego-inflation. Tetsuo, to whom the world was now beholden, had discovered the power of the self.
His destiny was now twined with the stars: the cosmos. He had a vision of true god - the god image which resides in each man. The very image of healing. Thinking Akira had chosen him, his ego only inflated ever more in a Thanatotic frenzy. But the power Akira holds is far stronger than any body can hold. Ego-inflation, confidence at holding back this new found power of Akira, was critically undermined. The powers of the unconscious, of the self, of the body, of Akira, proved to be far greater than he could have ever known.
Only through a cosmic rebirth can the complex be overcome. Only through death can birth happen again. Neo-Tokyo's rebirth occurs in the baptismal font of the ocean, buildings eroded by pneumatic winds of the coming age. The dark clouds of cultural neurosis pass in Neo-Tokyo, blessed by the new sun; its stunted growth now unimpeded to bloom anew. Tetsuo's stunted personality - the Tetsuo possessed by Kaneda's spirit - has died too. The holy cleansing light of Akira, the radiant rays of god, the emanations of the one, psychic wholeness, the mandala, the self. The perfect orb. White and pristine. The egg of the future. Neo-Tokyo is washed aclean. Tetsuo is healed anew.