Tv Character Evaluation

TV Character Evaluation

Sherry Price

BEH/225

May 28, 2012

Ah’Nonda Bates

Appendix D

TV Character Evaluation

Part I

Write a summary of 350-700 words identifying the contributions of Freud, Jung, and Rogers.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Sigmund Freud brought to the psychological community the psychodynamic theory . This theory is the behavior of psychological focus within the person. Freud thought that personality begins developing during childhood and that any experiences that a person goes through affects their personality development . Freud said that there are there parts to every person’s personality. First the ID, which involves the collection of unconscious urges and desires that seek expression, operating according to the pleasure principle, trying to obtain immediate pleasure and avoid pain. Second is the ego, the ego is the psychic mechanism that controls thinking and reasoning. Operating partly consciously, partly preconsciously and partly unconsciously ego seeks to satisfy id’s drives in the external world. Unlike id ego operates by the reality principle by means of intelligent reasoning. The ego tries to delay satisfying the id’s desire until it can do so safely and successfully. An example from the text, if your thirsty your ego will attempt to determine how to effectly and safely to quench your thirst. Last is superego, this ego provides moral standards that a person has developed from their parents and social influences. Freud called the superego the moral watchdog. Not present at birth but governed by the moral standards that are developed through interaction with parents and society. As we mature the superego acts as a conscience and takes over the task of observing and guiding the ego the same way that parents observe and guide a child.

Carl Jung: (1875-1961)

Carl Jung, believed that the role of the unconscious determines human behavior. He also believed that ego’s...