1. No Bad Parts: Forms of Self-Compassion in Inside Out 2.
- Author
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Fawaz, Ramzi
- Subjects
- INSIDE Out 2 (Film), MANN, Kelsey
- Abstract
This essay argues that Inside Out 2's critical success lies in its canny translation of three contemporary mental health discourses including Tibetan Buddhist mindfulness, holistic medicine, and the internal family systems model of the psyche. By presenting human emotions as a series of autonomous but interconnected parts struggling against being repressed and compartmentalized, the film models for viewers what a healthy relationship to one's affective life might look like in an increasingly mentally distressed world. In so doing, it materially enacts the discourses of mental health, namely the injunction to reject emotional denial and compassionately embrace all one's part, as an everyday way of life capable of offering viewers equipment for living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024
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