Worksheet

What personality (or character) type does Hank display according to Freudiantheory? Provide evidence for your answer. At what stage is Hank fixated,according to the Freudian perspective? Find evidence of fixation in the casestudy. What might have caused this fixation? Hank¶s personality is a reflection of the unconscious mind. He is not aware of howothers perceive him. Unfortunately, Hank was isolated from the social scenebecause of his character. He never had the pleasure to meet a girlfriend or even atrue friend to help him bring this awareness to the conscious mind.Fixation means to be attached to a person or thing in an immature state. Hank alsohad fixated thoughts. His ego came to the conclusion that Sally was a shallowperson. He was positive that Sally could not look past his weight problem. If hewas only able to steer away from that thought, he would have noticed that Sallyput in more time than she really wanted.Hank also had a similar scenario with the client he tried to entertain. He left thatmeeting feeling good about his visit with the client. But later found out that theclient talked down about him and was chewed out by his boss.I believe Hank had these fixations because no one ever took the time to educatehim on social norms. His mother use to shut him up with cookies. This is me wasa clean sign that he had dependency issue towards his mother. The mother did notdiscipline her son which can lead him to have unbalance state of mind. Afterreading the case study, I believe the mother is part to blame for Hank¶s fixationbecause he was spoiled into a self center person, without him even noticing.Also his boss utilized his computer skills and made every attempt to keep him awayfrom clients. This is an example of poor human resources. The company apparentlyhas no desire to make an attempt to inform Hank of any constructivecriticisms. Hank is not given an opportunity to learn from his mistakes. This casestudy shows that the work environment lacked poor human resources skills. In myopinion, Hanks felt as if he was an ideal employee. He shined through his daybecause of his confidence and knowledge with computers. He thought he was ableto distinguish himself from right and wrong. It was not until he had metpsychologist, then he was then able to see things from a new light and realized thathe had some issues to work on.After reading the case study, I believe the mother and the boss are key factors inHank¶s fixation issues. He was spoiled into a self center person, without him evennoticing. He was praised by his skills but never had the opportunity to reflect onhis people skills