Yes, Russo, the same man that Frank bailed out of the DUI then used the congressman’s alcoholism to become indebted to Frank with his unwavering loyalty. The puppet strings Frank held on Russo were not simply cut off there, in season 2 (before Frank became President), Frank needed Russo for a very critical point in his rise to power, to become vice president. The current Vice President, Jim Matthews, happened to also be the former governor of Peter Russo’s current congressional state, Pennsylvania. Although Russo is battling so many personal problems, Alcoholism, drug addiction, etc, it is life long dream to become Governor of his home state. With the position being left vacant due to Jim Matthews recently being assigned Vice President, Russo
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Frank even goes as far as personally reaching out to President Walker, and vice President Matthews, even Secretary of State Cathy Durant, for the purpose vetting Russo, or convincing his political colleagues to support Russo’s cause. Everything is going superb for Russo, he is leading in the in the race, and close to victory, however, on the night before a critical campaign interview, Frank, and his right hand man Doug Stamper, unravel Russo’s campaign for good. Frank has Stamper higher a prostitute to seduce Russo at a campaign event he is attending the evening before the interview. She appears well dressed, classy, and a dire threat for Russo. The two begin conversing, and she informs him that she has cocaine and alcohol in her hotel room, and then proceeds to leave Russo her room number and an extra key. While Russo fights dark the temptation, his months of sobriety and hard work are tarnished when he enters the room with the prostitute, and proceeds to consume inconceivable amounts of drugs and alcohol. The next morning, hung over, disorientated, Russo attempts the interview, and within minutes, his campaign is …show more content…
In his short text: Civilizations and its Discontents, Freud states, “the price of progress in civilization is paid in forfeiting happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt,” (Freud, 77). While it is a bold statement, Freud is suggesting is that progress in society is prolonged or slowed down, because individual’s feel guilt within society, and that guilt, being purely man-made through subjective societal values, causes one to focus on unnecessary, artificial mistakes, rather than progress in society. It is important to note that Freud also created the three primary systems on which the human brain operates, the id, the ego, and the super ego. The id is ones primary desires, their innate instincts; it if often referred to as the pleasure the principle. Then comes the superego is the moral part of the psyche, that deals with morality, and imposes guilt, and finally, the ego is the reality principle, that almost acts as a regulator between the superego and the id. Freud believed that humans only feel guilt because of society, since man creates society, therefore man also created moral values, ethics, and
Frank even goes as far as personally reaching out to President Walker, and vice President Matthews, even Secretary of State Cathy Durant, for the purpose vetting Russo, or convincing his political colleagues to support Russo’s cause. Everything is going superb for Russo, he is leading in the in the race, and close to victory, however, on the night before a critical campaign interview, Frank, and his right hand man Doug Stamper, unravel Russo’s campaign for good. Frank has Stamper higher a prostitute to seduce Russo at a campaign event he is attending the evening before the interview. She appears well dressed, classy, and a dire threat for Russo. The two begin conversing, and she informs him that she has cocaine and alcohol in her hotel room, and then proceeds to leave Russo her room number and an extra key. While Russo fights dark the temptation, his months of sobriety and hard work are tarnished when he enters the room with the prostitute, and proceeds to consume inconceivable amounts of drugs and alcohol. The next morning, hung over, disorientated, Russo attempts the interview, and within minutes, his campaign is …show more content…
In his short text: Civilizations and its Discontents, Freud states, “the price of progress in civilization is paid in forfeiting happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt,” (Freud, 77). While it is a bold statement, Freud is suggesting is that progress in society is prolonged or slowed down, because individual’s feel guilt within society, and that guilt, being purely man-made through subjective societal values, causes one to focus on unnecessary, artificial mistakes, rather than progress in society. It is important to note that Freud also created the three primary systems on which the human brain operates, the id, the ego, and the super ego. The id is ones primary desires, their innate instincts; it if often referred to as the pleasure the principle. Then comes the superego is the moral part of the psyche, that deals with morality, and imposes guilt, and finally, the ego is the reality principle, that almost acts as a regulator between the superego and the id. Freud believed that humans only feel guilt because of society, since man creates society, therefore man also created moral values, ethics, and