Végesség, lázadás és önteremtés : A Szárnyas fejvadász és a Blade Runner 2049 egzisztenciális pszichológiai megközelítésben

Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 from the perspective of existential psychology

Abstract

Ridley Scott’s classic 1982 film Blade Runner and its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049, direc­ted by Dennis Villeneuve, are both extremely complex films that explore serious existential dilemmas. In this paper, I draw on perspectives from existential psychology and philosophy, focusing primarily on the seminal work to analyse how the realisation of mortality shapes the character and behaviour of the individual characters in the movies. At the heart of this is the rebellion against finitude and the progressive response to it, creation and self-creation, showing that only the discovery of one’s own identity and self-transcendence can give real meaning to existence, which helps to cope with the existential anxiety related to mortality. In the films, all this revolves around the dilemma of the ability to have children, which Otto Rank sees as the primary „immortality project” for humans, but also raises important phi­losophical questions about human existence.