Aeon Flux: Thanatophobia

From the masters of pets, to the masters of countries, we all engage in projection. Aeon and Trevor are no exception.

Manipulation comes natural for Trevor who instinctively uses Sible and Onan as external representations of his conflict with Aeon. She too engages in this practice and believes the pain inflicted on either of the Bregnan dissenters to be a blow against herself.

While not to the same degree, puppeteers do engage in this method of projection. The technique of externalising personal issues has even been used by psychologists and councillors, especially in cases regarding children.

While this puppetry as a profession is mostly harmless, problems can occur from an over indulgence of this practice. Externalising emotions may make them easier to understand, but an outside force is harder to deal with and resolve than an internal one. There is a danger in placing traits on a puppet, as it allows us to avoid delving into the origins of these issues.

Sible remarks that Aeon and Trevor are "toying with our lives" and the control they exert creates puppets of these lovers. But, as with all puppetry, in the end it becomes clear who is toying with who.

-The English Student