Likewise, it works as a way of illustrating Will’s defensive behaviors and irrational thinking. This then brings about intimidating unconscious thoughts and material to enter the consciousness and eventually results in possessing one of the defense mechanisms. Hence, one will be very much delicate to any stressors and anxiety by distorting reality. If these three elements are off-balance, one will not be able to maintain a healthy state of consciousness. It explains about how the id (pleasure principle), ego (reality principle) and superego (moral principle) structure one’s personality by initiating the unconscious, sexual and aggressive drives. The second theory that I put in the paper is Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. Therefore, this theory is used in the present paper to illustrate why Will acted out such attitudes and behaviors in the movie. After Skyla gave him her phone number, he flaunts the fact to the young graduate student. The other one was when he used his prodigy to mentally attack the young graduate student and eventually have Skyla impressed about him.
Speaking of the examples of his psychological abuse, one of them was when he continually insulted the marriage between Shawn and his deceased wife. The physical abuse was when he beaten up his kindergarten friend. He never received any sympathy or understanding for the abuse which he went through in his foster homes, thus making him accept the abuse and his role as abuser in both ways – physical and psychological ways, whenever he had the chance.
#Will hunting s iq movie
Let us take an example of the movie of “Good Will Hunting”, Will grew up with violence both inside and outside the home. On the other hand, it was claimed that failure to pull yourselves through a stage can lead to impaired ability for completing the following stages, and so make you a more unhealthy personality and sense of self. According to the theory, successful completion of each stage results in a healthy personality and successful interactions with others. The third psychosocial stage – Initiative versus Guilty, rationalized that children tend to assert themselves in ways which are considered socially acceptable, and learn to take initiative in their dealings with both people and tasks. It was maintained in Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personal development that Will’s defensive and avoidant personality was developed due to the continuing abuse by his foster homes when he was young.
#Will hunting s iq series
Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. The particular theory is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. First of all, I would like to adopt the Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personal development (Neu-Freudian theory) as a direction of explaining Will’s personality in the movie.
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