Supervillains Fascinate Us Analysis

The general overview of “Why Do Supervillains Fascinate Us? A Psychological Perspective” is that there are different perspectives that could ultimately contribute to the reasoning behind our interest in supervillains. The author believes that some of the factors that contribute to said fascinations can be determined by analyzing them through different psychological views. Travis Langley’s perspectives include shadow confrontation, wish fulfillment, hierarchy of needs, and conditioning.
Shadow confrontation, proposed by Carl Jung, is the need to confront and understand our own hidden nature to grow as human beings. This perspective suggests people are able to identify their problems and deal with them in a healthy or unhealthy manner. For example, you can either use your issue to positively overcome said problem (as Batman used his loss of his parents to fight …show more content…
A Psychological Perspective” is valid. Author Travis Langley beautifully described the topic by applying psychological based reasoning to develop his proposed thesis that supervillains fascinate us for different reasons based on the mental and behavioral status of an individual. He speaks upon how shadow confrontation, wishful fulfillment, hierarchy of needs, and conditioning are reasons for people to easily identify or relate to supervillains.
The ideas presented in a very clear and concise format. Information was broken up appropriately and transitions from one topic to the next were in the right places and kept the overall flow of the article. I liked how he backed up each of the perspectives with the names of the psychologist who proposed them. For example, he discussed Pavlov when speaking about conditioning and Sigmund Freud when talking about wishful fulfillment. Adding known psychological thinker brought a little more validity to the article as well as gave the reader a point of reference for further