The Game between Brain and Heart - Character Analysis of the Hero in the Movie A Beautiful Mind

摘要

《美丽心灵》(A Beautiful Mind)是一部改编自同名传记并获得奥斯卡金像奖的美国电影。影片讲述了一位患有精神分裂症但却在博弈论和微分几何学领域潜心研究以致获得诺贝尔经济学奖的数学家约翰·纳什的人生故事。"mind"一词既指“头脑”，即理性思维，又指“心灵”，即情感精神。《美丽心灵》男主人公约翰·纳什是一位头脑过于聪明，但心灵不够强大的科学家，他的一生便是在头脑与心灵的博弈中度过的。

本文从纳什的人物形象入手，分析其性格特点与心理特征，主要分成三大部分。第一部分分析头脑与心灵失衡状态下的纳什，如他杰出的科学创新思维、人际交往障碍与情绪失控；第二部分运用弗洛伊德无意识理论与荣格原型理论分析三个幻觉产生原因与其所暴露的内心需求。第三部分针对头脑与心灵逐渐达到均衡状态的纳什，分析其康复因素，如其对爱情的信任、校园的包容、对科学的不懈追求，控制幻觉的意志等。据此揭示出影片的主题——对美好情感的呼吁以及个人思维与情感的均衡发展。

本文通过对影片男主角形象分析角度对影片进行了赏析与主题阐释，更是通过研究心理学理论对精神分裂症患者的发病与恢复进行了解读，为精神患者的案例分析提供了思路。

关键词：美丽心灵，纳什，人物形象，无意识，原型

Abstract
A Beautiful Mind is an American biographical drama film which is honored with Academy Awards. It is based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, who gets schizophrenia but devotes himself to game theory and differential geometry. The word “mind” has two-fold meanings. On the one hand, it refers to “brain”, reason and intelligence. On the other hand, it symbolizes “heart”, emotion and spirit.
This thesis proceeds from character analysis of Nash, decodes his personality and mental traits and is divided into three parts. It first analyzes the outstanding scientific creative intelligence, interpersonal relationship obstacle and uncontrollable mood of Nash when his brain and heart were out-of-balance. Then, utilize Freud’s unconscious theory and Jung’s archetype theory to discover what accounts for Nash’s fantasies and unveil his mental needs. At last, it focuses on the period when Nash possessed balanced brain and heart as well as explaining his recovery factors such as his trust for love, the inclusive campus, relentless pursuit of science and positive attitude of controlling fantasies. In the light of the above analysis, it is obvious that the film calls for beautiful affection and suggests everyone has a balanced development of intelligence and emotion.
The thesis not only makes film appreciation and reveals the theme of the film by character analysis of the hero, but also decodes a schizophrenic’s fantasies and recovery with psychological theory, providing a direction of psychic case analysis.
Key words: A Beautiful Mind, Nash, character analysis, unconscious, archetype