Looking at Sean Jr. from The Blind Side Introduction In this paper, I will be looking at the movie The Blind Side and analyzing the character of Sean Jr., known in the movie also as S.J. I will be looking at S.J.’s development in Sigmund Freud’s latency period and Erik Erikson’s stage of Industry vs. Inferiority. I will discuss the traditional and alternate paradigms that relate to this character in the movie and the risk and protective factors that affect him. At the end of the paper, I will discuss why looking at a person in all of these different aspects is important in the work of a generalist social worker. The Theorists In our class discussion and PowerPoint, we learned that Sigmund Freud believes that a child goes through five different …show more content…
“The alternative paradigms we explore evaluate a persons’ worth and importance according to standards of the inherent worth and dignity of all humans, and especially they recognize the benefits of human diversity” (Schriver, 2015, p. 45). We see this example in S.J because he looks at Michael in an alternate way; he does not make any racial or socioeconomic prejudices regarding Michael. He sees Michael only from the perspective of a person who is looking for friendship and companionship. He does not judge Michael on his race or size, but rather on the fact that he sees Michael trying to reach out and make friends. S.J. treats Michael the same way that he would any other kid even though S.J. is being brought up in a white high-class neighborhood. Eventually everyone in the school, including the teachers, are able to see Michael in the same way that S.J. saw him when they were on the …show more content…
had the protection of a good family, safe neighborhood, and good school. He felt secure enough in the world around him that he thus became a protective factor for the older and bigger Michael. In the movie, S. J. takes out all the spices from the spice rack and sets them out on the table to go over football plays with Michael to help him become a better player. When Michael gets better and makes an amazing play in the football game, S.J. records this and sends the DVD out to college scouts to see (Hancock, 2009). Michael, on the other hand, is also a protective factor for S.J. He sees S.J. like a little brother and want to be able to take care of him too. When Michael takes S.J. in his new truck to go get a new video game that he wants. Michael and S.J. are busy singing along with the music and Michael does not see a landscaping truck backing up out of a driveway. Michael hits the truck and causes an accident. S.J. is hurt and the paramedic tells S.J’s mom, Leigh Anne that they are surprised that his injuries are very minor considering that the deployment of the airbag on a child his size would normally have snapped his neck. It isn’t till later on when Leigh Anne sees that Michael’s arm is injured with a burn mark on it that she finds out the Michael put his arm out to protect S.J. from the airbag (Hancock, 2009). S.J. is lucky to have so many protective factors in his
Even though Freud had been discredited for his work because theorists believe his work unrealistic, I understand his way of thinking and believe he was correct about the way the brain is sectioned in to 3 different parts. From having a young baby and understanding the demands and how they act to working with children throughout the foundation phase I can see the developmental stages of the personality.
After fulfilling his basic needs, Michael also achieved the safety needs where he had a sense of protection with his newly adopted family and environment that were surrounding him. According to Norwood (2009), living in a safe place and having protection from other is very important for human beings. In home, Anne treated Michael Oher as her own child where she always gives him support such as bought him some new cloths to encourage him to start a new life; she also brought Michael a trunk when he wishes for it. Besides than his adoptive mother, Sean Junior also plays an important role in the changes of Michael’s life. Because of the adoption, both of the boys had become buddies in a matter of seconds. After Michael joined the American football team in school, Sean Junior had became Michael’s personal trainer to brush up Michael’s techniques and physical abilities in football. Collins, daughter of Leign Anne also showed acceptance towards Michael when she ignores her friend’s impression towards Michael and chosen to accompanied Michael when she saw him study alone in the library.
He said child development is described as a series of 'psychosexual stages. Freud outlined these stages as oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Each stage involves the satisfaction of a libidinal desire and can later play a role in adult personality. If a child does not successfully complete a stage, Freud suggested that he or she would develop a fixation that would later influence adult personality and behavior.
The physician Sigmund Freud created the concept psychoanalytic theory and also accepted reactive development and discontinuous growth. Freud created the id, ego and superego personality components that determined how society ruled our lives. This way of thinking gave birth to psychosexual development where there are five
S.J. then turns into the role of Michael’s coach/mentor. He helps Michael train for football practices by taking him to the practice field and making him run sprints, lift weights, and other workouts. S.J. also films Michael at practices and games, so that Michael can look at them later on and learn how to make himself a better player. After filming Michael at his first game of pushing a player all the way down the field and over the fence, S.J. makes a DVD and sends a copy out so that college coaches can see how good of a player he is. The final role S.J. plays is Michael’s agent. He negotiates with every college coach who tries to recruit Michael. S.J. wants to have access to his brother and be able to reap all the benefits as well. He even asks one coach, “What am I going get from this” (The Blind Side).
The psychodynamic approach views behaviour in terms of past childhood experiences, and the influence of unconscious processes. There are five psychosexual stages in Freud’s theory, the first being the oral stage during which the infant focuses on satisfying hunger orally. Sigmund Freud believed that during this stage of development the person can become fixated in the oral stage of development. An infant's pleasure and comfort centres on having things in the mouth during this
Freud believed that at each developmental stage, the three forces must adjust to changes. In most cases, this process is successful. When it is not, fixations occur, ultimately leading to psychological abnormality. Though Freud's variant of the psychodynamic model is the best known, there are many other beliefs that stem from it. These include ego theorists, who believe the ego is independent and powerful, self theorists, who believe in the unified personality, and object-relations theorists, who emphasize the need humans have for relationships (Comer, 2015).
The Blind Side depicts the story of Michael Oher, a seventeen year old African American homeless boy from a broken home, taken in by Leigh Anne Tuohy, a wife and mom of two living in a well to-do neighborhood. Repeatedly running away from the group home after group home, he was placed in after he was taken from him drug addicted mother, he happens to run into the exceedingly accepting family. Only after the catholic high school football coach sees his size and agility he is accepted to the privet school, despite a 0.7 GPA and lack of a place to sleep Leigh Anne Touhy, along with only one of his teachers, take a special interest in him. The families give him
Albert Bandura a Canadian psychologist that was curious to know whether or not humans learn through the actions of others (Berk, 2013, p.14). The social learning theory brings up the question whether, playing violent video games or watching violent films can provoke being violent. Charles Darwin a British naturalist observed an endless change among animal species and plants. He noticed, it’s impossible for an animal to be completely identical as another animal of the same species. Darwin found that early prenatal development is similar in various species, while other scientists doubted Darwin’s theory. This led to a trend focusing on child studies. Stanley Hall and Arnold Gesell both American psychologists, described development as a maturational process. A genetically destined series of events that unravels automatically, like a flower. This led to the normative approach, in that measures of behavior are derived from a sample of people and calculated to generalize a representation in development (Berk, 2013, p.11). Research later sought to figure out individualistic development rather than the general population. Sigmund Freud a Viennese physician constructed the psychosexual theory. It focuses on how parents control their child’s sexual and aggressive drives in their first few years, which is crucial for healthy personality development. The theory has three parts of the personality, id,ego and superego that combine during five stages. Erik Erikson improved Freud’s idea, in
The primary influence our perceptions is our Self Concept. While watching this film, I noticed some perceptual errors that the characters made. One of the common perceptual errors is the tendency to assume that others are like us. A lot of the people that interact with Michael make this error. The students at school tend to not interact with Michael because he is a different race and also has a different personality than they do. The teachers also are guilty of this same perceptual error because they’re not used to having students that don’t know the fundamentals of learning at Michael’s
The next day Leigh Anne Tuohy wakes up and realizes that Michael is nowhere to be found and also did not take any of their belongings with him. She runs out of the house and catches him walking out of the driveway. At that moment she demands Michael to come back and asks him would he like to stay for Thanksgiving dinner. Michael continues to stay with the family and even pulls his grades up enough to play football for the school. After giving Michael the unconditional love of a family, the Tuohys ask Michael would he like for them to become his legal guardians. Will Michael find a home with the Tuohys or will he return back to the secluded and neglectful life that he once lived?
Freud believed that an individual’s personality is formed through five psychosexual developmental stages. The oral stage which is formed in the first year of life is preoccupied with oral activities. The anal stage involves bowel function and control, and occurs during the second year of life. The phallic stage which occurs at approximately the third year to the fifth
Sigmund Freud 's developmental theory was his psychosexual stages of development. His stages were: the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent and the
The psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud has always been argued to be one of the most controversial theories in the school of psychology. Critics have questioned how relevant the perspective of Freud is due to the fact that it holds no scientific basis. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behavior is the result of the interactions among three component parts of the mind: the id, ego, and superego. This theory, known as Freud's structural theory of personality, places great emphasis on the role of unconscious psychological
In 1905 Freud proposed that psychological development in childhood takes place in a series of fixed stages. These stages were dived into 5 parts; Freud said personality will be developed by the time one is a teenager. They are called psychosexual stages because each stage represents the fixation of libido known as sexual drives or instincts on a different area of the body. Fixation is part of our sexuality left behind at an earlier sage of psychosexual development.