Breakfast Club Psychology

The movie Breakfast club includes various high school students sacrificing their Saturday to detention. John Bender character who is most commonly found in detention. He is the stereotypical “burnout” or “criminal”. He is not afraid of the principal and is not bound by rules. Bender talks back to the principal and breaks all his rules. Furthermore, he is rude to his peers by taunting about thing such as their family life or virginity. He doesn’t care what other think of him and is not offended when Andrew or Claire taunt his life style. In the beginning of the movie, you see Bender walking in alone, which shows his independence from his family. He describes his parents to only be both verbally and physically abusive. His father is an alcoholic, insults Bender, and burned his arm for spilling paint in the garage. Bender’s personality is the most rebellious of all the characters. …show more content…
The id is an unconscious pleasure seeking principal. All humans are born with these drives. As people develop, the superego grows. The super ego want to be the the ideal and following social standards. The superego can be conscious and unconscious. To balance out these two opposing forces, is the completely conscious ego. These three parts result in a person’s personality. Freud’s also strongly believed that early experiences had a major influence on personality. His theory on psychosextual stages says that the id develops various pressure seeking zones through a person’s maturity. oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genitals. Issues in development in any of these stages are called a fixation. This can have an effect on a person’s personality in the