Psychological Analysis Of A Beautiful Mind

John shows physical development because physically he is alright, but the way he talks doesn’t really attract people. John is socially not normal. When John was a child his dad could have been the man that talked to women really rudely which lead to him doing this now, like in the bar when the girl slaps him because he tells her the only reason he wants her. Also in the move is he throws a desk out the window which shows his physical strength. This could relate to his childhood because when he was younger one of his parents could have got frustrated and taken out his anger on something else. This shows John’s physical development. John’s cognitive development is in the preoperational stage because his imagination is very strong and he had …show more content…
Most of who we are is influenced by hidden forces. In the movie “A Beautiful Mind” the main character, John Nash shows his personality by the theory of psychoanalysis because of his id. His id takes control and tells him what to do. The id is the bad, it tells him to do the wrong thing and not to care about what everyone else is doing or says. The id is telling you to do the thing that makes you happy even when it’s not the right thing to do. In this situation the id dominates because when John is in the bar he goes up to the girl and talks to her and tells her what he wants to do to make him happy and it backfires on him and she slaps him in the face. His id took over because talking to her would make him happy so he did it because his id told him to. This is an example of John’s personality according to …show more content…
In the hierarchy of needs its talks about self- actualization which is how he sees himself, like his self-concept. In the hierarchy of needs the first stage is physiological which he doesn’t have much of because he doesn’t get much sleep because he is paranoid because he thinks the Russians are after him. Since he thinks the Russians are after him he doesn’t feel safe this is the second step in the hierarchy of needs. The third step is love/belonging which he partially has because he doesn’t realize that there are people out there that love him because he is too busy focusing on everything else. The final two steps are esteem and self-actualization which he doesn’t meet because he doesn’t have respect from others and he doesn’t have self-esteem because people find him weird and kind of