We are engaged in what happened then. We are the same ones who were involved in the action; the memory brings us back as acting and experiencing there and then. Without memory and the displacement it brings we would not be fully actualized as selves and as human beings, for good and for ill (71).
Jacek is very clearly stuck in a place in his mind where he believes that he was to blame for what really happened. He was there and he remembers it as such and so it is so. The other element that feeds this is his imagination. According to Sokolowski, memory and imagination are structurally very alike and it is easy for one to slip into the other. The question is whether or not Jacek sees his true self in that memory or if it is an imagined being of himself. This matters because if Jacek is not able to recognize himself in the past, then there is no morals associated with him. According to de Beauvoir, if an act is left behind, then it simply falls into the past and it becomes nothing but a mere stupid fact. In order to prevent this from happening, a person has to return to it in the mind and then justify it in terms of what the person is doing then in the present. Jacek must carry out the act of murder so as to relieve himself of what he feels he is to blame for in his past. In a sense, Jacek feels that he will achieve freedom if he can carry out the murder because he is embracing the past as he does it. This is why at the end of the film, while Jacek does feel regret for the murder, he also feels a sense of peace with the knowledge of his punishment.
Jacek's murderous act can be explained by looking at it with a humanistic psychological approach. While humanistic psychology does take environmental factors into account, it also focuses more on the individual and the individual's needs. Maslow, specifically, with his five levels of needs, explained needs as similar to instincts and they play a major part in behavior and what motivates behavior. That being said, some of the lower needs on the hierarchical chart are physiological, then security, and third, social. Jacek seems to be lacking in security and definitely in social needs. He has no place in society, no real relationships it appears, and his behavior is in direct opposition to the norms of society. Jacek is not even close to the fifth need, which is the most important and is called self-actualization. Maslow described the most important needs as knowing what you can be and then being that person. Maslow suggests that if certain needs are not met, one's motivation is directly linked to the person's need to satisfy them. The key to making sense of Jacek's actions is to understand what motivated him to act in such a way and what needs were not met that propelled the act.
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