I didn't really react to it as such when I watched it. (I thought the sequence was uncomfortable to watch, in a way, because Evil Abed was so ruthlessly tearing down Britta, but that's another thing entirely and was probably meant to be that way).
As far as I saw/see it, the thing is that Evil Abed is over the top evil. He's not being subtle in his evilness at all (I mean, he goes after Jeff with a bone saw) and he's not beyond pushing all the buttons someone has to tear them down - even if those buttons are legit or not. Maybe the sequence means to point out that these are fears Britta has about herself? That she's doing it for the wrong reasons, etc. Even if she isn't doing it for the wrong reasons, she could have that little smidge of doubt (I mean, don't we all have these irrational smidges of doubt about these things?) and Evil Abed is playing to that.
I don't think I take anything Evil Abed says at face value. He's attempting to get back to the prime timeline and make the prime timeline dark for the study group, by any means necessary, and pushing buttons was his way to bring down Britta. If anything, I think it kind of shows that therapy is a sensitive thing and if you do it wrong, it can really mess with you, in the same way as it can help when done right. Evil Abed used psychology against Britta to bring her down (bringing up painful things from her past, pushing the right buttons to make her fall apart), so I'd say it implies that the opposite works as well.
I think their little talk at the end of the episode kind of brought out the fact that Abed sees the value in psychology and I didn't really get the feeling that Harmon or anyone else on the show feels that psychology isn't real or doesn't work or is wrong. But that is, of course, only how I felt as I was watching it.
(I also think that, so far, it seems that therapy has also helped Jeff or at least is sending Jeff on the right track?)
I think Evil-Abed is probably right to say that Britta wants to be a psychiatrist because it allows her to feel superior to others. But that's not true for every psychiatrist in the world, it's just true for Britta.
As far as I saw/see it, the thing is that Evil Abed is over the top evil. He's not being subtle in his evilness at all (I mean, he goes after Jeff with a bone saw) and he's not beyond pushing all the buttons someone has to tear them down - even if those buttons are legit or not. Maybe the sequence means to point out that these are fears Britta has about herself? That she's doing it for the wrong reasons, etc. Even if she isn't doing it for the wrong reasons, she could have that little smidge of doubt (I mean, don't we all have these irrational smidges of doubt about these things?) and Evil Abed is playing to that.
I don't think I take anything Evil Abed says at face value. He's attempting to get back to the prime timeline and make the prime timeline dark for the study group, by any means necessary, and pushing buttons was his way to bring down Britta. If anything, I think it kind of shows that therapy is a sensitive thing and if you do it wrong, it can really mess with you, in the same way as it can help when done right. Evil Abed used psychology against Britta to bring her down (bringing up painful things from her past, pushing the right buttons to make her fall apart), so I'd say it implies that the opposite works as well.
I think their little talk at the end of the episode kind of brought out the fact that Abed sees the value in psychology and I didn't really get the feeling that Harmon or anyone else on the show feels that psychology isn't real or doesn't work or is wrong. But that is, of course, only how I felt as I was watching it.
(I also think that, so far, it seems that therapy has also helped Jeff or at least is sending Jeff on the right track?)
(rambly comment is rambly oops)
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