An Artistic-Psychological Interpretation of Hello! Mr. Tree from the Perspective of Adler’s Inferiority Complex Theory
阿德勒自卑情结理论视域下《Hello!树先生》的艺术心理学阐释

摘要

电影《Hello!树先生》以生活在中国农村时代变革背景下的社会底层边缘人“树”的精神陷落与心理异化 为主线，塑造了中国当代现实主义影像中极具代表性与典型性的自卑人格形象。本文以阿尔弗雷德・阿德勒个体心 理学中的自卑情结、心理补偿等理论为核心框架，剖析影片主角树产生自卑情结的创伤根源、行为表征与精神代偿 机制。通过细节探究与精神分析发现，树先生的怯懦、讨好、退缩与幻觉生成，是因为曾受到的童年创伤、社会底 层处境、价值感缺失等多方面因素共同作用的结果。树先生从现实压抑走向精神崩坏的过程，完整呈现了自卑个体 在社会支持缺失状态下的心理崩溃路径。通过对电影塑造的这一自卑形象进行心理学解读，为研究艺术作品中社会 边缘人物自卑人格形象的心理学阐释提供了案例。

Abstract

 The film Hello! Mr. Tree takes as its main narrative thread the mental collapse and psychological alienation of “Shu,” a marginalized figure at the bottom of society living amid the transformation of rural China. It creates a highly representative and typical image of an inferiority-based personality in contemporary Chinese realist cinema. Taking Alfred Adler’s theories of inferiority complex and psychological compensation in individual psychology as its core framework, this paper analyzes the traumatic roots, behavioral manifestations, and mechanisms of spiritual compensation that give rise to the protagonist Shu’s inferiority complex. Through close examination of details and psychoanalytic interpretation, the study finds that Mr. Shu’s timidity, ingratiating behavior, withdrawal, and hallucinations result from the combined effects of childhood trauma, his disadvantaged social position, and the loss of a sense of personal value. The process through which Mr. Shu moves from real life repression to mental breakdown fully presents the psychological collapse of an individual with an inferiority complex under conditions of deficient social support. By offering a psychological interpretation of this image of inferiority shaped by the film, this paper provides a case study for the psychological analysis of inferiority-based personality images among socially marginalized figures in artistic works.