the purpose of this presentation is to investigate the personality of Hannibal Leter in terms of the traits, humanistic and psychodynamic conception of personality
Gordon Allport claimed that each person exhibits unique qualities: with five main traits that each individual can possesses varying in extents: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Contentiousness, Neuroticism and Openness, with rank high or low to describe a person’s personality
Extroversion present high in Hannibal Lecter. Before he was recognized as a serial killer, Lecter portrayed himself to most as a charismatic intellectual, hosting dinner parties and dominating conversations in the movie Red Dragon. He preformed his duties as a psychiatrist admirably and assisting many of his patients. …show more content…
In a scene of Slience of the lambs, he spend time reflecting on killing and murdering due to his loss. He prefer to remain embedded within society indulging his appreciation for culture, art, food and wine. As a doctor he is very approachable and talking freely to his patient, this shown his high openness sides of a serial killer.
Hannibal Lecter grew from a scarred child to a strong murderous adult showing that the behaviour does not consistency across time.
The strength of the big five conception is the pattern of behaviour over period of time of a human personality. It can be tested through number test such as openness test and rating scale.
The weakness of the big five traits approach is that it does not explain all of human personality and the five factors are not independent. Often there are opposite correlation appear between neuroticism and extroversion for example, those who are more prone to experiencing negative emotion tent to be less outgoing. The model cannot accurately predict any specific behaviour as human behaviour is based on many factors, not on personality alone.
Humanistic hierarchy …show more content…
The strength to this conception of Hannibal dominant in Id serve the psychodynamic approach is that they focus on the effects that childhood experiences have on the developing personality. The importance of childhood development and experience have impacted Hannibal Lecter as since very young he had witness the murder of his sister and parents during the war. This cause him to keep a fear and anger memory as which then lead him to murder who ever he found related his memory. As the childhood experience is focused on nurture of situation the Id, ego and super ego also naturally develop.
The weakness of psychodynamic approach is that people do not have free will as it suggest that behaviour is pre determined. An example of this is when Hannibal were trap in Id and keep on the murdering, this is pretty deterministic as people would guess that he will continue to kill and seek for blood.
Psychodynamic approach often hard to test as it is unscientific in its analysis of human behaviour. The assumsion can be scienctificly measure or proved worng as the mind being split into 3
Gordon Allport claimed that each person exhibits unique qualities: with five main traits that each individual can possesses varying in extents: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Contentiousness, Neuroticism and Openness, with rank high or low to describe a person’s personality
Extroversion present high in Hannibal Lecter. Before he was recognized as a serial killer, Lecter portrayed himself to most as a charismatic intellectual, hosting dinner parties and dominating conversations in the movie Red Dragon. He preformed his duties as a psychiatrist admirably and assisting many of his patients. …show more content…
In a scene of Slience of the lambs, he spend time reflecting on killing and murdering due to his loss. He prefer to remain embedded within society indulging his appreciation for culture, art, food and wine. As a doctor he is very approachable and talking freely to his patient, this shown his high openness sides of a serial killer.
Hannibal Lecter grew from a scarred child to a strong murderous adult showing that the behaviour does not consistency across time.
The strength of the big five conception is the pattern of behaviour over period of time of a human personality. It can be tested through number test such as openness test and rating scale.
The weakness of the big five traits approach is that it does not explain all of human personality and the five factors are not independent. Often there are opposite correlation appear between neuroticism and extroversion for example, those who are more prone to experiencing negative emotion tent to be less outgoing. The model cannot accurately predict any specific behaviour as human behaviour is based on many factors, not on personality alone.
Humanistic hierarchy …show more content…
The strength to this conception of Hannibal dominant in Id serve the psychodynamic approach is that they focus on the effects that childhood experiences have on the developing personality. The importance of childhood development and experience have impacted Hannibal Lecter as since very young he had witness the murder of his sister and parents during the war. This cause him to keep a fear and anger memory as which then lead him to murder who ever he found related his memory. As the childhood experience is focused on nurture of situation the Id, ego and super ego also naturally develop.
The weakness of psychodynamic approach is that people do not have free will as it suggest that behaviour is pre determined. An example of this is when Hannibal were trap in Id and keep on the murdering, this is pretty deterministic as people would guess that he will continue to kill and seek for blood.
Psychodynamic approach often hard to test as it is unscientific in its analysis of human behaviour. The assumsion can be scienctificly measure or proved worng as the mind being split into 3