“Killing Clown” is a hit TV show involving a protagonist who is dedicated to fighting crime in Star City. He has encountered and arrested numerous criminals over time, and his reputation is well known throughout the city. However, the TV show’s developing team has decided to develop a new villain character to continue the movie’s theme. The new character, Scarface, is brought up by an abusive and ever-drunkard father. He gets the name from his scarred face. As such, this paper elucidates the character’s personality and links it to Freud’s id, ego, superego or defensive mechanism personality development theory.
Scarface is a violent individual. His childhood is marked with cases of violence against neighborhood children, schoolmates, as well as the society at large. He is expelled from several schools for his bullying and violently attacking students before he drops out of school and joins a local gang. Later in life, he becomes a demented villain who engages in violent cases of robbery, assault, as well as property vandalism. His violent behavior is attributed to abuse from his ever-drunkard father.
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He is a psychopathic clown who enjoys mass murdering innocent civilians without empathy. Throughout the show, Scarface engages in a spree of murderous activities such as arson and mass poisoning just for the thrill of watching people succumb while begging for help. His wild suicidal ideas and activities drive every citizen into fear, and nobody dreads to cross his path.
Moreover, Scarface has the burning urge to be in control of himself and other people. However, even though he displays the little amount of self-control and organization, he meticulously plans for every murderous activity he executes. Lastly, he is a pathological liar. He lies to teachers that he is an orphan lives in children’s care facility when his parent is summoned to address his behavior. Additionally, he offers two different encounters on how he got the scars on his face.
Because of his insane nature, the best personality development theory that can best describe him is Sigmund Freud’s Id, Ego, and Superego or Defense Mechanisms. According to Freud, the human psyche divides into three major repressed aspects, that is, the Id, Ego, and Superego. These aspects develop at different stages of one’s life (McLeod, 2016). The id is concerned instinctive part of the mind that encompass sexual, hidden memories, as well as aggressive behavior (Siegfried, 2014). The ego aspect deals with reality and is the mediator between the id and superego. On the other hand, superego entails moral consciousness (Cherry, 2019).
Scarface relies upon his id, that is, his instincts and drives and in which factors such as experience and time do not alter them. He irrationally and illogically engages in fantasy-oriented selfish, murderous activities while seeking to satisfy his instincts by watching the world burn. Moreover, Scarface offers two accounts on how he got the scars on his face. The first one is abuse from his father while the second one he got them while trying to save his wife from monsters. If we choose to believe both accounts, this can serve as reasons for his aggressiveness and hatred to society. As such, this account shows that he does not demonstrate ego but rather id; that is, his activities are chaotic and unreasonable.
Also, it is evident that Scarface lacks societal morals and values mostly passed from other persons and parents. His father is abusive, a trait that does not promote societal wellbeing. Moreover, the values he accrues from hanging out with the local gang promote destruction. As such, it is true he lacks superego, an aspect whose function is to control impulses that society forbids, for example, violence. Lastly, Freud’s personality theory points out Scarface’s defensive mechanism. For instance, he shows denial when referred to as ‘a violent clown.’ He repeatedly tells himself he is not a violent clown. Additionally, he utilizes selective memory when giving account on how he got the scars. As such, using Freud’s theory we can conclude that Scarface’s hatred to society is a clear projection of self-hate. Moreover, his hatred for his father is projected in his rebellious and unlawful activities.
References
Cherry, K. (2019). What Are the Id, Ego, and Superego?. Retrieved from https://www.verywellmind.com/the-id-ego-and-superego-2795951
Mcleod, S. (2016). Id Ego Superego | Simply Psychology. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html
Siegfried, W. (2014). The Formation and Structure of the Human Psyche. Retrieved from http://www.fau.edu/athenenoctua/pdfs/William%20Siegfried.pdf
