Throughout this paper I am going to be discussing three theoretical perspectives on personality, which are Freud’s Structural theory, Kagan’s biological theory, and Humanistic theories. Freud’s structural theory consists of the id, ego, and the superego. The id seeks plea

There have been many different situations that have led me away from my personality type. I have been shy and withdrawn when I am encountered with some new people or people that I don’t really get along with. When I am in a conversation with someone that is giving me blunt facts about things instead of interpreting everything that they say. During the holiday’s I tend to find sentimental value in lots of things, which does not agree with my personality type. I have tended to be open minded about things that I want to learn. For example I enjoy the outdoors so I am very open-minded and want to learn everything that I can about it.

The actor that I am choosing to do my personality analysis on is Michael Chiklis, who is plays the role of the corrupt cop, Vic Mackey on FX Television’s new hit series The Shield. I am going to be analyzing him from the three different theorists perspectives that were listed above. The first theorist that I am going to use to analyze him with is going to be Freud’s structural theory. I feel that he relies more on his id than any other specified part of Freud’s structural theory. He shows that he relies on his id when he does things spur of the moment not thinking about what he does thoroughly. He does things and then deals with the consequences later. One good example of this was when he arrested Armadillo, a drug cartel leader, then slammed his face down on a flaming hot coil stove. This shows that he uses the id because he got gratification by taking his anger out on Armadillo for all the trouble that he had caused Mackey and the police squad in the past. The next part of Freud’s structural theory that I am going to analyze Vic Mackey with is the defense mechanisms. I feel that he displays three defense mechanisms, which are: rationalization, reaction formation, and displacement. He displays the rationalization defense mechanism when he tries to justify to the other cops something that he has done to a criminal as being the right thing to do. An example of this is when his crime squad decided that they were going to bust the money train and not report it to the police and keep the money for themselves. During this bust his squad took gunfire from people in the money train and they had to shoot a couple of the money train members. Vic later said that it was something that had to be done so that they could get the money without being caught. He is justifying that ripping someone of and also killing a human being was the right thing to do. The next defense mechanism that he displays is reaction formation. He displays this to one of the women in the police squad that he despises of but pretends to get along with her and agree with her ideas most of the time. Even though he shows that he agrees with her he still goes of and does whatever he feels like doing. An example of this is that she gives him orders to calm down on his violent ways of bringing down the criminals, but he still goes out and brings them down with heavy amounts of violence. The last defense mechanism that I feel that he displays is displacement, which is venting anger on a safer target than the person that aroused the original feelings (Freud, Early 1900’s). He shows this when he is angry with someone at the police barracks and then he takes all his aggression out on one of the criminals that he busts. He does this because if he would take his anger out on one of his colleagues he might lose his job.

The third theory that I am going to use to analyze Mackey is the humanistic theories that are composed of three theorists id

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