The patient being analysed is Taylor Marie Wade, an eighteen year old caucasian female currently enrolled in Mendocino Community College. This paper will discuss Taylor’s psychoanalytic personality theory from four different viewpoints. First analysed will be her ego or neo-analytic personality, which will explain her personality at it's centre, and examine the factors which affect her psychoanalytic personality. Next will be the five factors that represent the aspects of personality, which will be used to analyse her psychoanalytic personality and how it pertains to her outward representation of herself. Finally, the cognitive aspects that fit with her personality will be thoroughly examined to reveal her thought processes and how they contribute to her personality.
Psychoanalytic Theory is the study of the id, the ego, and the superego which affects a person's everyday life style, personality, and how they interact socially with others. The id is the part of the personality that makes up the subconscious of a person's mind. The ego, according to Freud,…show more content… She dreams of past events that become recurring dreams, or of a cartoon that she has seen in which she plays the main hero and has to save everyone before it is too late. In her cartoon dreams she experiences all the pressure of saving everyone, which relays from real life, where she feels she has to help everyone before caring for herself. This task being left uncompleted forces her mental state into one of self-depreciation and unrealistic standards in regards to her attitude towards and treatment of others. Recurring dreams from past events, imply that these events still subconsciously affect Taylors state of mind towards them and may be causing her guilt or stress that she is unaware of. This could also mean that Taylor is aware of and is avoiding and her subconscious mind is telling her to open up and recognize what she is already aware
