Child Of Rage Analysis

A child, so delicate, so sensible, and selfless from life that what is done to them even at he beginning of their life can affect them forever. This is the reason why the movie I selected for this assignment was a documentary called the Child of Rage. This documentary is about two children that were adopted by a couple. One was a boy named Eric and the other was a girl named Beth. They were both maltreated at a very young age and had no mother and father abused them. Their biological father neglected Eric and sexually abused Beth they were both retreated from this home at a very young age Beth two years old and Eric one, but even though they were removed at a very young age from this environment they both were left with psychological damage,

The Psychoanalytical theory argues that “human behavior is the result of the interactions among three component parts of the mind: the ID, Ego, and superego” (Boundless, 2015). The Id is our instincts the ego is our reality and the superego is our morality we need all three to be able to live in society. We need our Id for our instincts to tell us what we want and our superego to tell us what is right and is wrong and our ego is our balance and it make sense and puts into place what our instincts want and what our superego is telling us. According to Freud our “personality develops during childhood… and the conflict among the parts of the mind shape behavior and personality” (Boundless, 2015). Because our personality develops during childhood this theory would be ideal for this documentary because the documentary is centered around two children that have been greatly affected in childhood. Their personalities have been compromised and how they see and view the world is different from other children who have had a “regular childhood” unlike them. They have been abused and moved from home to home which has greatly affected their personality

These are symptoms that Beth portrayed throughout the movie. The unhappiness she felt, the disturbing personality traits she showed as she hurt her brother and pets and also she had no remorse and could not love those around her. This is why according to the psychoanalytical theory the best way to treat Beth would be trough psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is “the method of an imaginative construction and reconstruction of the person’s past and present reality. The therapist collects the reposted reflections analyzes them, and then interprets them to the patient” (Shiraev 2011, p. 502). This would be the perfect method of treating her because along side with the therapist she would be able to return to her past childhood years were she was hurt so greatly. She would be able to acknowledge and accept what happened to her what happened to “baby Beth”. The therapist would be there to guide her to explain to her what happened and how to control her emotions of rage when she thinks about her past. She will be able to make her think that things can be different that there can be change that the past is not all there is to life but