This paper examines the personality of Jack Pearson from the television series This Is Us through specific aspects and theories of the psychoanalytic, neo-analytic, and trait perspectives of personality. This paper examines various scenes and episodes that display Jack’s character to provide evidence of his personality and how his personality fits into these three perspectives. It is examined through the psychoanalytic perspective’s theory of defense mechanisms that Jack uses the defense mechanisms of repression and sublimation. It is examined through the neo-analytic perspective that according to Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development Jack would have positively resolved many of the stages that he went through. Lastly, Jack’s personality
