Hi, so I am watching a movie about a person with emotional detachment.
that is the avoidance of emotional connections right?
Yes, The character has a hard time relating to people.
rather than an inability or difficulty in doing so, typically for personal, social, or other reasons. In this sense it can allow people to maintain boundaries, psychic integrity and avoid undesired impact by or upon others, related to emotional demands. As such it is a deliberate mental attitude which avoids engaging the emotions of others.
This detachment does not necessarily mean avoiding empathy; rather, it allows the person to achieve the space needed to rationally choose whether or not to be overwhelmed or manipulated by such feelings. Examples
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Merullo’s early works have been termed thoughtful and reflective. "I think I am a person who cares about the emotional life of people...and so I spend a lot of time on the emotional experiences of my characters—rather than, say, their intellectual experiences," he once said. But, "Golfing with God", "Breakfast with Buddha" and "American Savior" exhibited a more overtly spiritual theme – albeit humorous in tone. The seeds of this thematic shift can perhaps be traced