Does Personality Exist in the World Around Us?
Do you ever question yourself what the meaning and purpose is behind some of the most complex areas of life and possibly life after death? In the 2004 movie, I Heart Huckabees, an existential detective couple who is married work together to help people find the answers to all of their existential questions. In particular, the two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, set out on a mission to help a young adult by the name of Albert Markovski, after his request for help to solve the reasons behind a particular coincidence occurring in his life. Throughout the movie Bernard and Vivian observe Albert nearly every second of his day, in hopes to find the smallest clues as to what may be causing him these questions and thoughts, stemmed from his enemy Brad Stand. The type of existential therapy that the Jaffes offer to Albert involves romantic and …show more content…
To some personality exists and to others it does not, but that is the question people often have different opinion on. Throughout the I Heart Huckabees film the main characters each resembled significance in personality. The main character, Albert Markoviski, portrays the self and how one thinks about the world around them. According to William James there are four versions of the self, including the material self, the social self, the spiritual self, and the true self. A person’s true self is who they really are, and it is what causes some people but not all, to have the deepest questions pertaining to finding one’s self (Twenge & Campbell, 2017). There are different versions of the self, and Albert in the movie is a good representation of the self, because of how he chooses to question himself and the roles he plays in society and at his work place. Pertaining to the true self and Albert, throughout the movie he undergoes awareness through authenticity, and realizes his strengths and weaknesses and the motives behind what he does in
Do you ever question yourself what the meaning and purpose is behind some of the most complex areas of life and possibly life after death? In the 2004 movie, I Heart Huckabees, an existential detective couple who is married work together to help people find the answers to all of their existential questions. In particular, the two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, set out on a mission to help a young adult by the name of Albert Markovski, after his request for help to solve the reasons behind a particular coincidence occurring in his life. Throughout the movie Bernard and Vivian observe Albert nearly every second of his day, in hopes to find the smallest clues as to what may be causing him these questions and thoughts, stemmed from his enemy Brad Stand. The type of existential therapy that the Jaffes offer to Albert involves romantic and …show more content…
To some personality exists and to others it does not, but that is the question people often have different opinion on. Throughout the I Heart Huckabees film the main characters each resembled significance in personality. The main character, Albert Markoviski, portrays the self and how one thinks about the world around them. According to William James there are four versions of the self, including the material self, the social self, the spiritual self, and the true self. A person’s true self is who they really are, and it is what causes some people but not all, to have the deepest questions pertaining to finding one’s self (Twenge & Campbell, 2017). There are different versions of the self, and Albert in the movie is a good representation of the self, because of how he chooses to question himself and the roles he plays in society and at his work place. Pertaining to the true self and Albert, throughout the movie he undergoes awareness through authenticity, and realizes his strengths and weaknesses and the motives behind what he does in