Neon Genesis Evangelion schizophrenic character and she represents the unconscious of Shinji. Shinji has an Oedipus complex, and is characterized by a libido-destrudo conflict. Similarly, Ritsuko has an Electra complex, in which she loves Gendo, a sort of substitute for her father figure. Anno himself stated that the main character reflects his character, "both in conscious and unconscious part", referring also to Kaworu as his Jungian shadow. It has even been suggested that Shinji's entering into Unit-01 is a Freudian "return to the womb", and that his struggle to be free of the Eva is his "rite of passage" into manhood. The series
The Freudian Fallacy described it as "a model in the literature of denigration" in "" (1988), and the historian Roy Porter, who called it "tendentious". However, "The Freudian Fallacy" was praised by the psychologist Hans Eysenck in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), and has also received praise from other writers critical of psychoanalysis. The social and cultural theorist Todd Dufresne described "The Freudian Fallacy" as a notable work on the history of psychoanalysis, and the single best work on Freud's cocaine period. Richard Webster, writing in "Why Freud Was Wrong" (1995), called "The Freudian Fallacy" an interesting work. He considered