Blanche Devereaux: Character Analysis
Running head: BLANCHE DEVEREAUX: ACCORDING TO FREUD
This paper will be an analysis of the personality of Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux from the show titled “The Golden Girls.” In this paper Blanche will be analyzed from two points of view. The first analysis will be from the view of psychodynamics using Freud’s ideas on personality. For this analysis I will begin with the structure of Blanche’s personality in regards to the Id, which is the aspect of personality that deals with the instincts, the Ego, which is the rational aspect of the personality, and the Superego, which is the moral aspect of personality. The second analysis will be from the perspective of Abraham Maslow; I will use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and his assumptions about people’s human nature in the process of the analysis. Blanche’s Superego seems to be under-developed and her Id seems to be over-developed. The superego deals with urges and pleasures and those are the building blocks of Blanche. In Blanche’s younger days she never dated men in her own age group and says that she’s been dating seniors since she was twelve years old. She was married to a man named George and ever since his death she’s been sleeping with different men almost on a daily basis. She lives with her friends Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia (Dorothy’s mom) in a home in Miami Beach, Florida. Her friends try to make her a better person and make her understand that she doesn’t need bundles of men in her life but she doesn’t listen. She tells them that she loved her husband so much and that she misses the love she got from him. In order for her to feel complete she needs the love from the other men because it reminds her of her husband. Blanche does a lot of wish fulfillment, she creates images of herself with these men having sex and then living good lives but then she thinks about her husband and feels like she wouldn’t be loyal to him. Blanche uses this wish fulfillment as a way to get rid of the pain of losing
This paper will be an analysis of the personality of Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux from the show titled “The Golden Girls.” In this paper Blanche will be analyzed from two points of view. The first analysis will be from the view of psychodynamics using Freud’s ideas on personality. For this analysis I will begin with the structure of Blanche’s personality in regards to the Id, which is the aspect of personality that deals with the instincts, the Ego, which is the rational aspect of the personality, and the Superego, which is the moral aspect of personality. The second analysis will be from the perspective of Abraham Maslow; I will use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and his assumptions about people’s human nature in the process of the analysis. Blanche’s Superego seems to be under-developed and her Id seems to be over-developed. The superego deals with urges and pleasures and those are the building blocks of Blanche. In Blanche’s younger days she never dated men in her own age group and says that she’s been dating seniors since she was twelve years old. She was married to a man named George and ever since his death she’s been sleeping with different men almost on a daily basis. She lives with her friends Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia (Dorothy’s mom) in a home in Miami Beach, Florida. Her friends try to make her a better person and make her understand that she doesn’t need bundles of men in her life but she doesn’t listen. She tells them that she loved her husband so much and that she misses the love she got from him. In order for her to feel complete she needs the love from the other men because it reminds her of her husband. Blanche does a lot of wish fulfillment, she creates images of herself with these men having sex and then living good lives but then she thinks about her husband and feels like she wouldn’t be loyal to him. Blanche uses this wish fulfillment as a way to get rid of the pain of losing