OBS Chapter 3039 Mercury Notes (25)
Chapter 3039 Mercury Notes (25)
Chapter 3039 Mercury Record (Twenty-Five)
Although she wished she didn't have a mouth, Jenna still tried to clear her throat and took a deep breath to calm herself down so that she could see more from the lecture notes in front of her.
The handouts showed that this was another series of three serial murders. The victims had their genitals removed, their skin peeled off, stuffed with straw and placed in the field, becoming veritable "scarecrows."
This case is not as old as the previous cases that happened decades ago. It happened a few months ago, but the murderer has not been caught yet, which means that this is another unsolved case without a conclusion.
After a few seconds, Jenna sorted out her thoughts and said, "I think the murderer did want to humiliate them, but it was not out of his instinctive desire. He was seeking revenge."
At this point, Jenna paused and began to explain in detail: "Because... because he stuffed straw into their bodies. This dry straw is usually regarded as useless. He stuffed this thing into their bodies to say that their bodies are full of waste..."
"Wait a moment, miss." Schiller frowned slightly and said, "Is this what you really think?"
Jenna seemed a little at a loss, but still nodded. Seeing Schiller's bad face, she explained, "Grain plants are usually seen as new life and hope in the wheat seedling stage, and represent a good harvest in the harvest stage. But when the rich fruits have been harvested, the remaining dry straw is no longer so valuable..."
Schiller shook his head and said, "No, that's not the real reason why you came to this conclusion. You are just stretching it and trying to find a logical explanation that makes sense."
Jenna opened her mouth, but she said, "No, that's what I thought..."
"Obviously your previous teacher didn't give you very good guidance." Schiller crossed his fingers and placed them on the tabletop of the podium. "Some of his words and actions may have hinted to you that if you don't have logic, you should feel ashamed. That's why you desperately try to find a logic that seems barely reasonable to explain your feelings."
"But in fact, we don't need to do that. Humans have built modern society based on logic and rational thinking, but before that, we built society based on abundant emotions. Emotions are more instinctive than logic, and there is no distinction between high and low, or noble and humble."
"If you think that the more rational a person is, the more noble he is, then you are denying the value of the existence of writers and artists who have created countless romantic epics throughout history. The fact is that rationality and sensibility are indispensable, and it is pathological to abandon one and uphold the other."
Schiller took a deep breath and said, "It is inevitable that people will use themselves as a reference and lean towards one side, but as a teacher, I will sincerely encourage you to express your own preferences, even if they do not match my preferences. As long as you have an opinion, it is good."
"So, in my class, you can make a purely rational argument to prove that you have a rigorous logical reasoning ability, or you can simply say what you feel and express your emotions when you feel something. Either way is not wrong."
"Does behavioral analysis not take emotions into consideration? Of course not. In countless murders of passion, the murderer's motive is simple emotion. They kill because they are angry, they kill because they are sad, and they may even kill because they are excited. If you cannot understand their emotions at all, you naturally cannot identify their motives."
"It's the same with psychoanalysis. You may think it's illogical, but in fact, the logic of psychoanalysis is internal and exists in the mind of the analyst."
"Somewhere in their brain, the empathy organ is still operating according to a certain logic, receiving the analysis output, and this process is still traceable."
"For example, different information received may lead to different analysis results. When we appear on the scene, we feel the three-dimensional atmosphere, and the analysis organs work comprehensively, so we can naturally get more comprehensive results."
"But if we have a photo, what we can analyze is very limited. Even if someone knows about the users of psychoanalysis and takes precautions in advance, using a lens or photo editing to change certain factors of the photo, we will naturally not be able to get the correct answer."
"Skills are those that can be affected by various factors. This means that they have some kind of internal logic. If any link in the logic is affected, the result may be changed. Curses or prophecies are those that will not change the result no matter how they are interfered with. They are completely illogical."
"Being good at behavioral analysis doesn't mean you are insensitive to emotions, it just means you prefer rigorous reasoning. Being good at psychoanalysis doesn't mean you have no logic, it just means you prefer to understand others through empathy."
Schiller looked up at Jenna and said, "It's the same for every subject. In the academic world, there is no framework that constrains you. There are two possible so-called restrictions."
"One possibility is that you are not capable enough and can only take this approach. You can only infer the meaning of the straw, so you can only say this. The other possibility is that you have limited yourself and miscalculated the location of the end point, so you took a long detour."
"Which one do you think you are, miss?"
Jenna suddenly realized it.
Before, she always thought that psychoanalysis and behavioral analysis were completely separate, because the differences between the two were so great that there was no commonality at all. The two schools were also arguing with each other, and each wanted to disprove the other.
But now the Schiller standing in front of her made her understand why the name Schiller Rodriguez would be engraved in the history of psychology and why he was the true master of psychology.
Ultimately, psychology is the discipline that studies human psychology, and human psychology is never just logic or emotion, but is intertwined and interacts with each other.
If one only studies one of them and excludes the other, it would be metaphysical and one-sided, and one would never achieve academic success.
Only by placing the two on an equal footing, acknowledging the mutual influence and impact between the two, and profoundly understanding that no matter which one is separated, it cannot be called psychology, can one win a place for one's name in the hall of psychology.
The only difference between Bruce and Schiller is that for a long time he did not really believe that psychoanalysis existed in the world.
Like most Batman characters, he believes that only rigorous reasoning can be called reasoning. He often ignores the role of emotions and the changes that empathy can bring to people.
As long as he still has doubts or even slight uncertainties about empaths, he will not be able to go further on the path of psychology.
As for Jenna, she originally thought that she had to choose one of two paths. She believed that she should have the courage to break through herself, so she wanted to jump to the other path.
But now she realized that these were not two roads, but one road, except that some people used logic as the road surface and emotions as the handrails, while others used the opposite.
For natural empaths, their ability to empathize is the solid ground beneath their feet, but that doesn't mean they can't use any handrails.
It does not mean that when they hold the handrail, they must lift their feet off the ground and not touch the ground. Instead, they should hold the handrail while walking, so that they can walk more steadily and farther.
Jenna's mistake was that in order to make her reasoning look more logical, she kept walking on the thin and narrow handrail, and she thought she was quite stable.
Little did she know that when Schiller, who was also an empath, and his students who were adept at using behavioral analysis saw this, they all thought that the girl was mentally ill, as there was a good road for her to walk on but she had to perform acrobatics there.
But acrobatics are cool after all, and some students who can't even walk yet naturally think Jenna is amazing, which is why she leads many students astray.
The moment Jenna figured it out, her feet fell back to the ground, and she reached out and tried to feel the handrail. At this moment, she felt that her mind had never been so stable.
When a car is driving on a stable road, the next step is naturally to speed up, and Jenna's mind also started to work efficiently.
"Okay, Professor, I understand. Can I take back what I said before and say it again?"
"Of course, you always have a chance, miss."
"I think we should start with the scarecrow's duties. When the scarecrow was invented, it was to watch over a field and prevent the crops from being eaten by birds such as crows. This has a strong symbolic meaning and is the main reason why the murderer chose the scarecrow as the theme."
"The victims must be law enforcers. Their role and status in human society is like a scarecrow guarding an area in a field to prevent evildoers from committing crimes."
"The biggest difference between law enforcement officers and ordinary people is that they have weapons that ordinary people don't have, and their duty is to use violence to maintain social stability."
"So the killer removed their genitals, which meant he confiscated their weapons. He believed they did not perform their duties well and therefore did not deserve to have weapons."
"He was mocking them. He made them into scarecrows and placed them in the fields, telling bystanders that if they, as human beings, could not take good care of the area they were responsible for, then they should become scarecrows and watch over the crops."
"I observed obvious beak marks on the skin that was removed and sent to the forensic doctor in the handout photos, so this has a deeper irony, because crows, which are most common in the fields, are omnivorous birds. The smell of rotting skin will attract them, and they will use their sharp beaks to tear off the intact skin as their own food."
"The scarecrow will attract crows, which actually implies that many crimes in society are caused by law enforcement officers. Not only are they incompetent, they are also the root of darkness and crime."
"The above are the conclusions I reached through observing the photos and conducting common sense analysis. As for the murderer's emotions, he was angry and sarcastic, but these are just the most superficial and superficial emotions. I think the most worthy of discussion is the emotion of humiliation."
"Normally, if a person is treated unfairly by law enforcement officers and these people are used as scarecrows, in addition to anger and hatred, they will either show the joy of revenge or the instinctive pleasure of the abuser, but this murderer is not like that."
"The pleasure of revenge comes from the avenger putting himself in the victim's perspective and experiencing the pain they felt before their death, which makes him feel that his revenge has been achieved. The pleasure of the abuser comes from putting himself in the murderer's shoes, releasing the cruel and violent part of his personality, which makes him feel happy."
"But the murderer put himself in the perspective of the straw. He felt that he was forced into a certain space, and something tightly wrapped and bound him, making him feel powerless and humiliated."
"And because of these things that constrained him, he could only do this much. He saw serial murder as an artistic act, and he thought that without these restrictions, he would have created better art."
"Considering the current social situation, I think what limits and constrains him may be his personal financial situation."