Supernatural Psychology

Perhaps most important, he has been the object of Castiel’s interest since the angel first gripped him tight. The two “share a more profound bond.”

“I think the Dean and Sam story sucks. It is not fun. It’s not entertaining. It is a river of crap that would send most people howling to the nuthouse!”

Your problem, mate, is that nobody hates you more than you do. Believe me, I’ve tried.”26

Withdrawal

audience member at JusInBelloCon asked actor Jensen Ackles what it would take for Dean to give up his defense mechanisms.61

Ackles: “It would take years of therapy, and Dean has broken down some of those walls but a lot of them are how he survives. They’re defense mechanisms. Tearing them down might leave him so vulnerable he couldn’t live the life that he lives. Obviously, I’m no psychologist, so I don’t know how deep that goes….

“He uses that not just to defend against emoting, but he uses it to give him strength and courage to do the things that he does. Some of them are good and some are not, but it’s what makes Dean Dean. He’s a complex character and that’s part of his complexity, just like we are all complex. There are certain issues we all have emotionally, maybe physically, and that’s all part of what makes us us. Sometimes you need to face those issues, deal with them head-on and ask for help, or sometimes you just have to learn to live with them and deal with them as best you can. I think Dean is trying to do the best he can but some of those walls he needs; he relies on them as crutches.”

once you peer into the darkness and see what’s there then it also sees you. It knows you, and sometimes it goes hunting for you.