Clockwork Orange Alex’s Dysfunctional Personality
A Clockwork Orange was a very weird movie for me to watch, because I didn’t understand why the reasons for such violent behave without guilty at all, so this assignment was a good opportunity for me to learn and understand more about this issue. First I thought in analyse the movie with Jacques Lacan language theory, but in my research I came across with the “structural” topography. This theory elaborated by Freud, was from me, the best theory to understand and explain the violent behave of Alex, the main character of the movie. So I decide to analyze the protagonist behave based on Freud, mainly on the “structural” topography theory.
I pretend to demonstrate that the violent behave of Alex without guilty, is based on the dysfunctional development of is personality, using Freud Theory to prove my point. Relating his dysfunctional development of Alex’s personality with the parents weak personality, as well as their lack of love and attention to their son. This way Alex’s develop a dysfunctional personality dominated by is ID (pleasure seeking tendencies), over a weak Ego and Superego.
Sigmund Freud is considerate the father of Psychoanalysis, this therapy investigates the communication and mechanism between conscious and unconscious mind; basically try to understanding the way that mind works.
Freud believes that the self isn’t unified as a unique entity; there are different competing elements to control the self. From 1920 onwards, he elaborated the “structural” topography, were he describes a structure defined by three agencies the ID, the EGO and the SUPEREGO. These three agencies are the components of the self, the interaction between them are represented by the behaviour, thoughts and feelings of the individual. Freud describes these three agencies in the New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933), in the chapter Dissection of the Psychical Personality.
The ID: The ID is the most primitive part of our mind and work essential according
I pretend to demonstrate that the violent behave of Alex without guilty, is based on the dysfunctional development of is personality, using Freud Theory to prove my point. Relating his dysfunctional development of Alex’s personality with the parents weak personality, as well as their lack of love and attention to their son. This way Alex’s develop a dysfunctional personality dominated by is ID (pleasure seeking tendencies), over a weak Ego and Superego.
Sigmund Freud is considerate the father of Psychoanalysis, this therapy investigates the communication and mechanism between conscious and unconscious mind; basically try to understanding the way that mind works.
Freud believes that the self isn’t unified as a unique entity; there are different competing elements to control the self. From 1920 onwards, he elaborated the “structural” topography, were he describes a structure defined by three agencies the ID, the EGO and the SUPEREGO. These three agencies are the components of the self, the interaction between them are represented by the behaviour, thoughts and feelings of the individual. Freud describes these three agencies in the New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933), in the chapter Dissection of the Psychical Personality.
The ID: The ID is the most primitive part of our mind and work essential according
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