Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde--The Meth Lab
Unfortunately, this toy from the SILENT SCREAMERS collection is hard to come by. What is unique about this toy is that Dr. Jekyll is hidden inside Mr. Hyde. And the opposite is true too - figuratively. Dr. Jekyll has his laboratory for experimenting with different combinations of chemicals, his own meth lab, compleat with books, test tubes, beakers and distillers, like any good addict! But, unfortunately, the wrong combinations can do a lot of damage, elicit death or unleash the inner monsters and demons. And, even if you find the right combo, crime may be necessary to keep you supplied with tickets to keep spinning on that thrilling carnival ride. But this kind of doctoring heals nothing, just digs the hole deeper!! After all, Dr. Jekyll is known for arriving on the scene of the crime, where Mr. Hyde has just beat someone down, then offering help and assistance – what we call split architecture in the psychological literature! The left hand doesn’t seem to know what the hell the right hand is doing! All too representative of the eternal desire to be comfortably numb!!
This toy is an amazing tool and transitional object for discussing drug use and its contribution to mayhem! It seems similar to when porn addicts talk about searching for hours and hours to find just the right image that excites them the most of any they’ve ever found. Searching for the right drug is similar except the negative trial runs can do a lot of damage!
In our current world, we have this same phenomena emerging: the return of the repressed, the hatred, anger, vengeance and jealousies that have been buried surging to the top, encouraged by bottom feeders who can only attain power by appealing to the lowest common denominator and the parts of ourselves we prefer to discard. However, they are never really gone - they lie there in the unconscious festering and fermenting, waiting to be called out by the next Pied Piper of the contaminated core!! Don those Brown Shirts and do your best - at least until you wake from the spell and realize your own Mr. Hyde - what you kept hydden and what your father or fathers thought they had hyded out of you with some good whippings - has gotten loose and possessed you long enough to violate whatever moral code you professed to live by and visited harm upon your countrymen and countrywomen, not for the sake of preserving democracy, but for the sake of someone’s thirst for power!
Like most of the silent films that came out of Germany in the 1920, of which all the toys in this series are examples, Jekyll & Hyde presaged the advent of Nazi-ism. Read Alice’s Miller’s THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD and/or THOU SHALT NOT BE AWARE to gain much more understanding of this dangerous split between ego and core, core contamination, and how many parents, through the use of poisonous pedagogy over many generations, broke the spirit of their children in the name of morality and maturity, leaving a dangerous and toxic reservoir of hatred and rage, yearning to visit itself upon someone, some scapegoat, some victim, in order to allow some relief from the inner turmoil, rage, and degradation.
And then addiction comes in: anything to get away from the pain, the torment. Self-medicate. Drown in it. Totally numb yourself out. Finding the right drug that lights your fires just right, allows one to escape culpability, guilt, shame and responsibility, at least for a while. And Dr. Jekyll resembles one’s preferred image and identity - the display of goodness. Goodness ain’t bad, it just needs to be synced with core level awareness so that one doesn’t “flip out” every so often, flipping into the core and thrashing out, and then flipping back into the ego to clean up the mess and switch back to some form of innocence and ignorance, at least until the cycle repeats itself again. And again. And again! And worse things could happen each time around!
These days we have all kinds of malevolent alchemists working on designing new drugs, new highs. Some can be toxic and damaging to the brain and other body parts. Some are murderously strong! Some addicts are invisible from the outside, at least until their liver gives out or they end up hospitalized. Their public and interpersonal persona can be as sophisticated and respected as Dr. Jekyll. It is amazing how well some people can keep the inner split segregated and invisible to the untrained eye!
Unfortunately, this toy from the SILENT SCREAMERS collection is hard to come by. What is unique about this toy is that Dr. Jekyll is hidden inside Mr. Hyde. And the opposite is true too - figuratively. Dr. Jekyll has his laboratory for experimenting with different combinations of chemicals, his own meth lab, compleat with books, test tubes, beakers and distillers, like any good addict! But, unfortunately, the wrong combinations can do a lot of damage, elicit death or unleash the inner monsters and demons. And, even if you find the right combo, crime may be necessary to keep you supplied with tickets to keep spinning on that thrilling carnival ride. But this kind of doctoring heals nothing, just digs the hole deeper!! After all, Dr. Jekyll is known for arriving on the scene of the crime, where Mr. Hyde has just beat someone down, then offering help and assistance – what we call split architecture in the psychological literature! The left hand doesn’t seem to know what the hell the right hand is doing! All too representative of the eternal desire to be comfortably numb!!
This toy is an amazing tool and transitional object for discussing drug use and its contribution to mayhem! It seems similar to when porn addicts talk about searching for hours and hours to find just the right image that excites them the most of any they’ve ever found. Searching for the right drug is similar except the negative trial runs can do a lot of damage!
In our current world, we have this same phenomena emerging: the return of the repressed, the hatred, anger, vengeance and jealousies that have been buried surging to the top, encouraged by bottom feeders who can only attain power by appealing to the lowest common denominator and the parts of ourselves we prefer to discard. However, they are never really gone - they lie there in the unconscious festering and fermenting, waiting to be called out by the next Pied Piper of the contaminated core!! Don those Brown Shirts and do your best - at least until you wake from the spell and realize your own Mr. Hyde - what you kept hydden and what your father or fathers thought they had hyded out of you with some good whippings - has gotten loose and possessed you long enough to violate whatever moral code you professed to live by and visited harm upon your countrymen and countrywomen, not for the sake of preserving democracy, but for the sake of someone’s thirst for power!
Like most of the silent films that came out of Germany in the 1920, of which all the toys in this series are examples, Jekyll & Hyde presaged the advent of Nazi-ism. Read Alice’s Miller’s THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD and/or THOU SHALT NOT BE AWARE to gain much more understanding of this dangerous split between ego and core, core contamination, and how many parents, through the use of poisonous pedagogy over many generations, broke the spirit of their children in the name of morality and maturity, leaving a dangerous and toxic reservoir of hatred and rage, yearning to visit itself upon someone, some scapegoat, some victim, in order to allow some relief from the inner turmoil, rage, and degradation.
And then addiction comes in: anything to get away from the pain, the torment. Self-medicate. Drown in it. Totally numb yourself out. Finding the right drug that lights your fires just right, allows one to escape culpability, guilt, shame and responsibility, at least for a while. And Dr. Jekyll resembles one’s preferred image and identity - the display of goodness. Goodness ain’t bad, it just needs to be synced with core level awareness so that one doesn’t “flip out” every so often, flipping into the core and thrashing out, and then flipping back into the ego to clean up the mess and switch back to some form of innocence and ignorance, at least until the cycle repeats itself again. And again. And again! And worse things could happen each time around!
These days we have all kinds of malevolent alchemists working on designing new drugs, new highs. Some can be toxic and damaging to the brain and other body parts. Some are murderously strong! Some addicts are invisible from the outside, at least until their liver gives out or they end up hospitalized. Their public and interpersonal persona can be as sophisticated and respected as Dr. Jekyll. It is amazing how well some people can keep the inner split segregated and invisible to the untrained eye!
Unfortunately, this toy from the SILENT SCREAMERS collection is hard to come by. What is unique about this toy is that Dr. Jekyll is hidden inside Mr. Hyde. And the opposite is true too - figuratively. Dr. Jekyll has his laboratory for experimenting with different combinations of chemicals, his own meth lab, compleat with books, test tubes, beakers and distillers, like any good addict! But, unfortunately, the wrong combinations can do a lot of damage, elicit death or unleash the inner monsters and demons. And, even if you find the right combo, crime may be necessary to keep you supplied with tickets to keep spinning on that thrilling carnival ride. But this kind of doctoring heals nothing, just digs the hole deeper!! After all, Dr. Jekyll is known for arriving on the scene of the crime, where Mr. Hyde has just beat someone down, then offering help and assistance – what we call split architecture in the psychological literature! The left hand doesn’t seem to know what the hell the right hand is doing! All too representative of the eternal desire to be comfortably numb!!
This toy is an amazing tool and transitional object for discussing drug use and its contribution to mayhem! It seems similar to when porn addicts talk about searching for hours and hours to find just the right image that excites them the most of any they’ve ever found. Searching for the right drug is similar except the negative trial runs can do a lot of damage!
In our current world, we have this same phenomena emerging: the return of the repressed, the hatred, anger, vengeance and jealousies that have been buried surging to the top, encouraged by bottom feeders who can only attain power by appealing to the lowest common denominator and the parts of ourselves we prefer to discard. However, they are never really gone - they lie there in the unconscious festering and fermenting, waiting to be called out by the next Pied Piper of the contaminated core!! Don those Brown Shirts and do your best - at least until you wake from the spell and realize your own Mr. Hyde - what you kept hydden and what your father or fathers thought they had hyded out of you with some good whippings - has gotten loose and possessed you long enough to violate whatever moral code you professed to live by and visited harm upon your countrymen and countrywomen, not for the sake of preserving democracy, but for the sake of someone’s thirst for power!
Like most of the silent films that came out of Germany in the 1920, of which all the toys in this series are examples, Jekyll & Hyde presaged the advent of Nazi-ism. Read Alice’s Miller’s THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD and/or THOU SHALT NOT BE AWARE to gain much more understanding of this dangerous split between ego and core, core contamination, and how many parents, through the use of poisonous pedagogy over many generations, broke the spirit of their children in the name of morality and maturity, leaving a dangerous and toxic reservoir of hatred and rage, yearning to visit itself upon someone, some scapegoat, some victim, in order to allow some relief from the inner turmoil, rage, and degradation.
And then addiction comes in: anything to get away from the pain, the torment. Self-medicate. Drown in it. Totally numb yourself out. Finding the right drug that lights your fires just right, allows one to escape culpability, guilt, shame and responsibility, at least for a while. And Dr. Jekyll resembles one’s preferred image and identity - the display of goodness. Goodness ain’t bad, it just needs to be synced with core level awareness so that one doesn’t “flip out” every so often, flipping into the core and thrashing out, and then flipping back into the ego to clean up the mess and switch back to some form of innocence and ignorance, at least until the cycle repeats itself again. And again. And again! And worse things could happen each time around!
These days we have all kinds of malevolent alchemists working on designing new drugs, new highs. Some can be toxic and damaging to the brain and other body parts. Some are murderously strong! Some addicts are invisible from the outside, at least until their liver gives out or they end up hospitalized. Their public and interpersonal persona can be as sophisticated and respected as Dr. Jekyll. It is amazing how well some people can keep the inner split segregated and invisible to the untrained eye!