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Modified Concept Paper Topic:: Blood Work Is A 1998 Drama Film Written On March 9, 1998 and Directed by

This document proposes analyzing the personality of the main character Terry McCaleb in the film "Blood Work" using a psychoanalytic approach. It discusses how psychoanalysis aims to provide insight into repressed ideas and memories that cause neuroses. Personality develops from complex mixtures of characteristics and is influenced by childhood experiences and conflicts. The film depicts McCaleb as an FBI agent struggling with the effects of past trauma. Analyzing his personality through Freudian psychoanalytic theory can provide insight into how life experiences shaped his behavior as depicted in the film. Understanding the roots of trauma and mental health issues is important to address their effects on individuals.

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Modified Concept Paper Topic:: Blood Work Is A 1998 Drama Film Written On March 9, 1998 and Directed by

This document proposes analyzing the personality of the main character Terry McCaleb in the film "Blood Work" using a psychoanalytic approach. It discusses how psychoanalysis aims to provide insight into repressed ideas and memories that cause neuroses. Personality develops from complex mixtures of characteristics and is influenced by childhood experiences and conflicts. The film depicts McCaleb as an FBI agent struggling with the effects of past trauma. Analyzing his personality through Freudian psychoanalytic theory can provide insight into how life experiences shaped his behavior as depicted in the film. Understanding the roots of trauma and mental health issues is important to address their effects on individuals.

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MODIFIED CONCEPT PAPER

Topic:

A Psychoanalytic Approach in Analyzing the personality of the main character


in the movie “Blood Work.”

Problem:

The result of trauma to the personality of the main character.

Overview:

Psychoanalysis as a form of therapy is based on the assumptions that the ways


to cure neurosis is to allow patients to gain access to their repressed ideas. Beside
that conflicts from the fixated stage encourage them to face up whatever emerges from
the unconscious. Freud uses the term insight to refer to these processes. Moreover,
the ultimate goal of psychoanalytic therapy is to provide the patient with insight.
However, this is difficult to achieve because the emergence of extremely painful ideas
and memories into consciousness produces a very high level of anxiety, especially in
personality.

Personality is that patterns of characteristics thought, feelings, and behaviors


that distinguishes one person from another and that persists over time and situations.
A person who is traumatized and depressed often focuses on the negative as if this
negates the entire positive. In generally, every person is extremely complex and every
self-concept is potentially based on a complex mixture of good, bad, and different
characteristics.

Literature can be seen as a mirror of life, so some emotion will also be


presented in the literary works such as love, hate, joy, sorrow and even confusion.
These emotions also inspire the author in producing the literary work.

Blood Work is a 1998 drama film written on March 9, 1998 and directed by
Clint Eastwood and it was produced by him. It is the first film to use September 11 th
as a catalyst for a fictional story. Terry McCaleb is an ailing veteran FBI agent who
tries to catch the murder at the ATM in San Pedro, California. But when he hunted the
murder, heartbreak stopped him until he almost died. Since the tragedy, McCaleb has
shut himself off from the world. Then, he is taken control by his past trauma.

The theory that is going to be applied in this analysis is personality in a


psychoanalytic perspective. Psychoanalytic theory originated with the work of of
Sigmund Freud. Through his clinical work with patients suffering from mental illness,
Freud came to believe that childhood experiences and unconscious desires influenced
behaviour. Based on his observations, he developed a theory that described
development in terms of a series of psychosexual stages. According to Freud, conflicts
that occur during each of these stages can have a lifelong influence on personality and
behaviour.

Research Question:

How do the life experiences of Terry McCaleb influence his personality as


reflected in the movie “Blood Work”

Significance:

This research study is worth conducting because this will give researchers and
readers the idea of how our personality is shaped based on our past experiences. This
research will give light to the importance of trauma and understanding its effects to
each person. This research will also stress that we should not take for granted
depression, anxiety and most especially trauma, and that persons experiencing such
problems must be look upon and addressed. With that, in order to address this kind of
issues, we need to understand its root cause.

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