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A Beautiful Mind , which is starred by Russell
Crowe as John Nash, released
in 2001 and directed by Ron Howard. This film is the true story of John Nash, one of the great geniuses of the 20
th
century, who was famous for both his theories in math, and for the fact that he suffered from his
hallucination. Nash, a brilliant mathematician, begins to believe that he has
been approached by a top-secret government agency to assist with code
breaking. As his illness progresses, he is guarded more and felt afraid. He is
unable to function well at work, and he frightens his wife. A college roommate
turns out to be an elaborate hallucination, and other aspects of his life appear
to be built on paranoia, grandiosity, and ideas of reference. Eventually he
succeeds in his struggle to reintegrate into the academic community. The film
culminates triumphantly in Nashs acceptance of the Nobel Prize.
Referring to the background above, I would like to focus on Nash’s struggle to recover from his mental disorder hallucination until he can bring
his hallucination as the factor that help him in achieving his dream to become The Nobel Laureate Economics mathematician.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
Firstly, studying psychology is challenging. It is a study on such a wide variety of human behaviors, experiences, and interaction in many ways.
Furthermore, the study of psychology satisfies our curiosity and suggests ways to improve human learning and memory. Learning psychology helps advance
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human development and interaction and suggests ways to help individuals cope with psychological disorders.
A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard gives us a lesson about the
life of a mathematics genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash which is very complicated and hard to understand. He lives with his hallucination about the
three important people and his top-secret work. This case is interesting to be analyzed, since he has the hallucination disorder, he can achieve a Nobel and
invented an original idea. Furthermore, he finally recovered from its suffering and let them as the factors of his success to reach his dream. Through this
analysis, hopefully we can show to the people that our weakness can be the key of our success, so if we have a weakness, try to get the advantages from it.
I use the psychological analysis because hallucination is a part of psychological phenomena that people often suffer from.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
There are two problems which will be analyzed in this study: 1. What does Nash’s hallucination mean in terms of his search for
mathematical formula? 2. To what extent does Nash make use of his hallucination for acheiving the
Nobel Prize? in view of Psychoanalytical theory
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study are elaborated as follows:
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1. To explain what is the meaning of Nash hallucination in terms of his search for his original idea mathematical formula.
2. To describe to what extent Nash makes use of his hallucination for acheiving the Nobel in view of psychoanalytical theory.
1.5 Significance of the Study
The result of the study, hopefully, could be used as a reference for developing literature comprehension among students, especially those who are concerned
a lot about psychology. It is also expected that this study will make us know that Nash’s
hallucination which is always underestimated by his friends can be the factor influencing his success for his Nobel. Furthermore, John Nash tries to let us
know how to recover from its disturbance. Keeping survive is the key of all.
1.6 Outline of the Study
