Jess’s Character based on Freud’s Psychodynamic Perspective Jess is a quirky woman, absolutely one of a kind. Throughout the first three seasons of the show, Jess progressively shows more and more of her character to her friend Cece and her roommates as she becomes more comfortable with them. Freud’s psychodynamic perspective could be used to describe Jess’s personality. According to Freud’s perspective, there are three parts to Jess’s mind: the pre-conscious, the conscious, and the unconscious. Her personality like her mind is also divided into three parts: the Id, the Superego, and the Ego. Jess’s Id is based on pleasure. Her desires are to teach, do crafts, and to be happy in life. Her Superego is based on morals. Although Jess’s Superego
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Jess’s Ego is based on the balance of the Id and Superego. Jess’s Ego was based on the reality principle (decision making process). Since living with Nick, Schmidt, and Winston, Jess’s personality has becomes based on the Superego alone. This is because, her three roommates aren’t the most wise and organized people. In the short moment of knowing Jess before her life with her roommates, her personality seemed to be controlled by the Ego however, quickly turned into the Id due to her huge break-up with her ex. According to Freud, there are defense mechanisms used to ensure proper functioning of the three parts of personality. Jess is always insecure about her life or herself and she knows this because, it’s always buried in her precociousness. To cope with this, the ego switches back and forth between two defense mechanisms, rationalization and repression. Because Jess is insecure, she’s always finding things to do to make and excuses from having to do what she needs to do and she also tries to forgets the past. …show more content…
Jess scored in the middle for three dimensions of this test and high for the other two dimensions. Jess scored very high on openness because, she’s always willing to be occupied by new things to take her mind off of her insecurity. Jess scored in the middle for conscientiousness, because, although most times she lacks motivation in overcoming her insecurities, she is still very organized. In one episode, she dug out Nick’s box of old bills, organized them, and paid them off with the money he received from his dad’s will. Jess also scored in the middle for extraversion because, even though she lacks confidence for the outside world, she is a complete extrovert towards her friends. Jess scored in the middle for agreeableness also because, while she is somewhat emotional, has a bad temper once in a while, she is also likes to understand her friends. In one episode, Winston didn’t have enough money for his part of the rent so, jess go angry at him but, later on paid his part for him. On dimension neuroticism, Jess scores high because she is a worrier and is very emotionally unstable when it comes to certain things such as after an argument with Nick or Cece.
Explanation
Between Freud’s Psychodynamic Perspective and the Trait theory, I believe that, Jess’s personality is more understandable using the Psychodynamic Perspective. I feel like the
Jess’s Ego is based on the balance of the Id and Superego. Jess’s Ego was based on the reality principle (decision making process). Since living with Nick, Schmidt, and Winston, Jess’s personality has becomes based on the Superego alone. This is because, her three roommates aren’t the most wise and organized people. In the short moment of knowing Jess before her life with her roommates, her personality seemed to be controlled by the Ego however, quickly turned into the Id due to her huge break-up with her ex. According to Freud, there are defense mechanisms used to ensure proper functioning of the three parts of personality. Jess is always insecure about her life or herself and she knows this because, it’s always buried in her precociousness. To cope with this, the ego switches back and forth between two defense mechanisms, rationalization and repression. Because Jess is insecure, she’s always finding things to do to make and excuses from having to do what she needs to do and she also tries to forgets the past. …show more content…
Jess scored in the middle for three dimensions of this test and high for the other two dimensions. Jess scored very high on openness because, she’s always willing to be occupied by new things to take her mind off of her insecurity. Jess scored in the middle for conscientiousness, because, although most times she lacks motivation in overcoming her insecurities, she is still very organized. In one episode, she dug out Nick’s box of old bills, organized them, and paid them off with the money he received from his dad’s will. Jess also scored in the middle for extraversion because, even though she lacks confidence for the outside world, she is a complete extrovert towards her friends. Jess scored in the middle for agreeableness also because, while she is somewhat emotional, has a bad temper once in a while, she is also likes to understand her friends. In one episode, Winston didn’t have enough money for his part of the rent so, jess go angry at him but, later on paid his part for him. On dimension neuroticism, Jess scores high because she is a worrier and is very emotionally unstable when it comes to certain things such as after an argument with Nick or Cece.
Explanation
Between Freud’s Psychodynamic Perspective and the Trait theory, I believe that, Jess’s personality is more understandable using the Psychodynamic Perspective. I feel like the