Tina Turner Psych
Anna Mae Bullock/Tina Turner
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
The scene in the movie depicts Anna Mae has being approximately 8 years old. This is the stage in life that Erikson refers to as “Latency”. Latency is the time in a child’s life when inferiority develops from negative experiences at home; therefore Anna Mae’s mother deserting her at such a young age gives her a sense of insecurity with herself. There are many scenes in the movie that show how she feels like she isn’t good enough, the first of which you see from the way she responds to Ike Turner. Ike is the first good looking man who ever shows her any attention and she doesn’t know how to react to him at first, however I think it is her insecurities about herself that cause her to sleep with him right after Lorraine shoots herself in the bathroom. She doesn’t want Ike to walk out like her mom did. Later in her life after she marries Ike we see her blaming herself and making excuses for him when he beats her because she still thinks he may leave. Anna Mae’s experience with her mother abandoning her also turns out to be the reason that she stays with Ike after every fight/beating, she doesn’t believe in abandoning the people you love, no matter what they may do. In the end of the movie when Anna Mae is officially Tina Turner she finally begins to stand up to Ike, she realizes that she is good enough to do this all on her own and she doesn’t need Ike or her mother to be a powerful woman. She is no longer scared and because of that she is a stronger
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
The scene in the movie depicts Anna Mae has being approximately 8 years old. This is the stage in life that Erikson refers to as “Latency”. Latency is the time in a child’s life when inferiority develops from negative experiences at home; therefore Anna Mae’s mother deserting her at such a young age gives her a sense of insecurity with herself. There are many scenes in the movie that show how she feels like she isn’t good enough, the first of which you see from the way she responds to Ike Turner. Ike is the first good looking man who ever shows her any attention and she doesn’t know how to react to him at first, however I think it is her insecurities about herself that cause her to sleep with him right after Lorraine shoots herself in the bathroom. She doesn’t want Ike to walk out like her mom did. Later in her life after she marries Ike we see her blaming herself and making excuses for him when he beats her because she still thinks he may leave. Anna Mae’s experience with her mother abandoning her also turns out to be the reason that she stays with Ike after every fight/beating, she doesn’t believe in abandoning the people you love, no matter what they may do. In the end of the movie when Anna Mae is officially Tina Turner she finally begins to stand up to Ike, she realizes that she is good enough to do this all on her own and she doesn’t need Ike or her mother to be a powerful woman. She is no longer scared and because of that she is a stronger