Synopsis: Ambassador Sarek comes aboard the Enterprise to negotiate a treaty but has trouble controlling his emotions.
If the Enterprise can be analogized to the human psyche, then Ambassador Sarek in this episode can be seen as taking the role of a Logos-driven conscious rational ego that has suppressed the Eros-driven irrational unconscious for so long that now elements of the unconscious that the rational ego judges as negative can no longer be contained.
In this instance if it is Sarek who is indeed in the role of the rational ego, then all irrational emotions are considered negative, even love for his wife, and regret over choices that he has made.
In “Sarek” the role of the complex, a space in which the irrational unconscious can come through to the attention of the rational ego, would be filled by Captain Jean Luc-Picard. But this is a trickier analogy. For although the complex is a vessel by which the conscious ego can become aware of the unconscious, I am not sure the idea of containment is possible. However, it is through Picard that Sarek is able to release some of the emotions that have been suppressed for so long and give them voice.
Original post created 18 August 2021
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