Appendix D. Tv Character Evaluation

Appendix D

TV Character Evaluation

Part I Freud, Jung, and Rogers made major contributions to the understanding of personality traits in humans. They are the pioneers of defining what human personality is and how it can affect the lives of all humans. Freud, Jung, and Rogers had laid the foundation for many generations of psychologists and are still used to this day. Sigmund Freud a master of psychodynamic theorist, which he founded, gave us an understanding of our “id” the pleasure principle, our “ego” the reality principle, our “superego” our moral guardian or conscience and all together helps us function in society on a day to day basis. This theory is the basis that psychoanalysis, method of mind investigating, will follow to
this day. . (Psychology; an introduction 12th ed) Carl Jung was an analytical theorist who had an idea that all humans are born with a personal unconscious, a persons repressed thoughts, forgotten experience, or undeveloped thoughts.
Jung claimed that our minds and body have unconsciously adapted to change over time through the DNA of our ancestors. Jung also developed the Jung personality test which categorized people into two groups, extroverts who are interested in other people and introverts who are mainly interested in themselves. The Jung Personality Test is a typical evaluation given to most people when seeing a psychologist. . (Psychology; an introduction 12th ed)

Carl Rogers based his views on humanistic theories believing that human personalities were based on personal experiences in life. Rogers thought that every person was born with a set behavior patter on how they will live their lives. He determined that if a child was raised with positive reinforcement they would live to a ripe old age and the children in a negative environment tend to have problems throughout life. . (Psychology; an introduction 12th ed)

TV Character as described by Freud, Jung, and Rogers; Dr. Greg House played by Hugh Laurie on the Fox
network.

References:
Psychology; an introduction 12th ed. www.fox.com/house/ Part ll
|TV Character |Jung |Rogers |Freud |
|1.Dr. Greg House (star of the TV|Carl Jung would consider Dr. |Carl Rogers would have a field |Freud’s three personality |
|show House) |House an overseer in his |day with Dr. House. Dr. House is|structures identify Dr. House |
| |Archtype mind development.
Dr. |positive, knows what he wants |perfectly. The id structure |
| |House has tuff love for all his |and goes out of his way to get |shows his addiction to Vicodin |
| |patients, he does not hold back |it. It is apparent that Dr. |and rudeness toward his |
| |words, and he always knows he is|House was raised with a |colleges. The ego and superego |
| |right. |conditional positive regard. |structure shows Dr. House |
| | | |controversial medical judgment |
|2.Shawn (star of Psych) |Carl Jung personal and |Carl Rogers would say that Shawn|Freud would consider Shawn to be|
| |collective unconscious is |was a fully functional person. |put in the category of the id |
| |generated when Shawn has flash |Being raised by his father who |structure. He is very impulsive
|
| |backs of him growing up and his |was a police detective gave |but has a photogenic memory that|
| |father teaching him to be a |Shawn his unconditional positive|represses things in his memory. |
| |privet eye. |regard to his | |
| | |self-actualization. | |
|3.Chum lee (Pawn stars on the |Chum lee is a perfect candidate |Not coming from a positive |Chum lee does not have |
|history channel) |for Carl Jung’s personal |upbringing Chum lee would do |self-esteem issues. He does tent|
| |unconscious theory. Chum lee |well with Rogers in trying to |to regress to his childlike |
| |personality is based on |find his self-actualization |behavior and defenses. |
| |irrational perceptions |therapy. Chum lee would make a |Intellectualization is a problem|
| | |good science project. |with Chum lee; he tends to |
| | | |detach himself from stressful |
| | | |situations |