Why Do People Buy BID Dolls?
If you have just joined the bjd group and want to buy the first bjd, but the price of bjd has exceeded your budget, please read why are bjds so expensive? Buying a bjd is so expensive, why do people buy bjd dolls? For adults, the existence of transitional obiects is, in a definitesense, a normal and safe way of expressing “Dedipus complex” and “over-dependence The following points are more interesting:
1. Missing object
For children, the lack of obiects means the absence of the mother but for adults, important obiects are not limited to the mother or thechildhood caregiver who replaces the mother, as well as lovers and very important friends. The lack of these obiects will also causestrong pain to oneself. Under such circumstances, humanoid dols have evolved into transitional obiects for adults to relieve inner pain.
The BJD doll (Ball joint Doll), which is now popular al over the world. is the most representative humanoid dol. This kind of exoensivedol not only resembles a real person in size and shape but because of its wel-made oints and can pose in various poses, it is simply atwo-dimensional hottie who jumps out. The degree of simulation is extremely high, and it is called the perfect combination of dolls andart. t originated from ancient aristocratic toys in Europe At that time, most of these dolls were stil made of magnetic materals. just ikeEdward,the protaqonist in the story “Edward’s Fantasy Journey” it was an expensive porcelain rabbit. Nowadays, BUD dolls also haveanimal prototypes, but they have also been anthropomorphized. Most of the owners of these dols are women with certain financialstrength. They cal themselves “baby mothers’, have their websites and communication platforms, and often organize offline gatheringsThey let the dolls meet and meet on blind dates, and even hold grand weddings for the dolls. Moms and dads believe that BJD dolls are”children born because of your needs” and believe that each dol has an independent personality. Therefore, many players regard BJD as the hidden self in their hearts or their children, friends, and partners.
There is also an interesting thing. There is a wel-known “doll forest” next to Mexico City. People put some dolls in the forest to support their feelings based on nostalgia for their relatives. It was originally a beautiful thing, but it was civilized with horror. You can find manyphotos of mutilated dolls hanging from trees on the lnternet. People will naturally think of another culture Sacrifice. A long time ago, thesacrifice of the living was a tradition, but then people came up with ways to replace the living with human figures to escape. In China,many ethnic groups have the tradition of “tree burial”. These may be the origin of the horror element. However, the violent behavior ofdismembering dolls, think this is probably no different from the reason why children treat their toys violently.
2″Hidden”transitional obiects for adults
If adults still need “transitional obiects’, isn’t it not called transition? adults with a healthy mental state cannot be completely left behindForget these objects.
Except for oovious ooiects such as humanoid dols, real rooms that we are famliar with, or decorations that have a homely atmosphereare all used as specific reminders for families to provide a sense of security, ln addition, money is also an important transitional obiect.Just like the peace of mind of a baby sleeping with a doll, many adults will feel the same sense of security just by touching money. Forthem, money is a symbol of rights and independence. In addition to the function of money itself as money, it often plays an instrumentalrole in filling emotional needs.
3. Adult division
For children, dolls can help them to recognize good and bad and alleviate the pain of self-division. For adults, just like children love to watch fair tales, they will also habitually love stories that distinguish good and evil. This is why traditional hero stories like Marvel have become popular as adult fairy tales, Adults can get the pleasure of division from such a clear image of oood and evil and escape thepain of facing their division. I quess this is also the reason why they are willing to buy and store heroes and make these “good” entities. With the “bad” image on the table, you canalwavs share the pressure of your division.
However, if you can’t handle this split well, there will be a series of psychological problems. There are not a few movies that reflect theseproblems such as “Birdman”,”Black Swan”,”Twin Flower”,etc., and many thrillers will be alone. There are more than a dozen or even twomore than a dozen personalities. Let’s not say that it is complicated. The initial reason for the split personality must be the secondpersonality formed by excluding him from being unable to accept the “bad” image. Allan Poe’s “William Wilson’ touched on this issue veryearly, and it can be called the originator of this kind of story.
Interestingly, this type of story often ends when the “good” personality defeats the “bad” personality and also kills itself.
4.The pathological phenomenon of”partial obiect”dependence
In the children’s section, we said that when babies cannot recognize the complete object image of “mother”, they wil choose a betterunderstood one, such as the food source that they reply on for survival, the “breast” as the “partial object” of the initial understanding.Just like the cognition of the wholee object, the attachment relationship with a part of the object tends to continue into adulthood, that isto show excessive excitement to a certain part of the body, such as breasts, hair, and feet. This kind of psychology itself is a harmlessearly life. The memory of the stage remains. When this kind of attachment affects the individual’s interaction with other obiects, that ithe individual’s interpersonal relationship with others after adulthood, It will evolve into fetishes. For example, there are many “footfetishes’ nowadays. The same is true for excessive attachment to transitional objects. Of course, This habit is harmless in most cases.
In summary there is an answer to why humans need humanoid dols. As for when peoples needs for humanoid dolls become so natural? I think, probably everyone knows it when they cry for the first time. People’s demand for human form has also evolved into a tacitunderstanding. As for why people have ear of humanoid dols this is probably more complicated. At present, I can consider the following points. Treat dolls as a substitute for the obiect of fear separate fear replace fear. Maybe if we figure this out, we can ficure out thecuriosity and fear of human beings towards aliens and robots. So how can you understand why do people buy bjd dolls?
Source:
1.”Objective Relationship Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice, and Cases” [United States] Edited by Sheldon Cashdan
2. “ntroduction to Object Relations Second Edition” [United States] Edited by Gil Saf/David S
