Profile of Bill Clinton from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

A tragic hero is a person who is adored or praised by the public eye but then chooses an action that eventually leads to his or her’s own destruction. These kind of heroes have been around for an extreme amount of time. A tragic hero is most commonly heard of in a novel or epic, but there have been many historical tragic heroes throughout the real world. Every continent, every country, and even every state has had at least one real life tragic hero in their midst. The United State’s dealt with a tragic hero when they elected former president Bill Clinton into office. Clinton, who use to be known for his intelligence and great speaking abilities, is now known for his scandalous acts in the White House.

Sadly, there are millions or children from around the world who encounter some form abuse. The abuse Dave encounter was physical, emotional abuse, and neglect from his mother. It is currently believed that factors that may increase the likelihood of developing antisocial behavior are child abuse and having an alcoholic parent. These factors are considered to be independent of each other, but may also be interactive in their effect on behavioral development (Pollock).

One of the things Clinton is most famous for, but not the proudest of, is his affairs. The issue of Clinton having an affair with Monica Lewinsky is purely personal. It should have been discussed within his family and in his family alone. Many people seem to forget that Presidents before him have done the exact same thing. John F Kennedy is probably the best known with his affairs. This doesn't diminish the fact that Clinton took it one step farther and lied about the affairs.

Sanders had become a workaholic who avoided parties and struggled with shifting the blame off himself when he was not worthy of it. All of these qualities he had stemmed from the trauma induced by his father, and never left his life because he was too afraid of becoming his father. He faced the sad reality of being similar to his father in the way that he appeared to his son, something that would seemingly be avoided if alcohol was not in the picture, but it was not avoided. Out of all the fear and the shame held within, he could avoid the addiction. What he couldn’t avoid was the ugly truth about the demons he possesses inside him, coming to haunt him from the past, and coming to curse him with the fate he was so resistant against, becoming the father that he once had. This story is not an uncommon one. Even though there are variations in the parent’s behavior and the intensity of the effects on the child, the problem still exists. Over half of all people in America have had kids. How many of those children were lucky enough to have a parent from the 30% of alcoholics America

As a child, Dave Pelzer was abused by his mother. For a period of six years, she deprived him of food, neglected his feelings, forced him to complete chores in a time limit that was near-impossible, enforced her rules of sitting in the prisoner of war position in the garage, sleeping in the bunk in the garage, and made him sit in the bathroom with a mustard gas mixture (Pelzer, 1995). Dave was resilient, standing up to his mother, and overcoming his struggles. Dave was also mentally developing during this time, therefor he was developing in his cognitive development, where his ecological systems failed, and where his moral reasoning is throughout this time period.

On August 17, 1998, exactly one year after making the statement above, President Bill Clinton prepared to deliver a speech concerning a scandal that had gripped the nation for months. It is needless to say that this was an important moment during the Clinton administration. After accusations of sexual harassment, Clinton addressed the nation and admitted to having a relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In this critical speech Clinton set out to admit to wrong-doings, provide a few reasons for his

To the public, Bill Clinton was noted as charismatic and considerate to all races and genders. Clinton was highly admired by Americans because of his speeches and his extremely social lifestyle. According to the Roper Center Public Opinion Archives at the University of Connecticut, Bill Clinton only had a sixteen percent disapproval rate at the beginning of his first term, however; in 1995 the Lewinsky Scandal occurred, and his disapproval rate rose to fifty-four percent (“Clinton Presidential Approval”). Although Americans supported Bill Clinton’s presidential administration, his involvement in the Lewinsky Scandal led to his demise.

They include the psychodynamic perspective, behavioral theory and cognitive development. According to the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services, the psychodynamic perspective states, “early negative childhood experiences may impact the behavior of a person” (Ontario Ministry). Richard Kuklinski definitely experience negative incidents when he was a child. To begin, his father was an alcoholic who beat him all the time. When Kuklinski was only five years old, his father beat his older brother to death.

While it is too early to accurately judge the presidency of Bill Clinton, most would agree that he was successful in office. He was the first democrat to successfully be reelected since Franklin Roosevelt. Yet, when a sufficient amount of time has passed and historians attempt to categorize and analyze Bill Clinton’s presidency, his legacy will ultimately be tied to scandal. The numerous scandals that Clinton faced – and survived –were an important aspect of the Clinton presidency. On one hand, they showed the well-documented weakness of Clinton’s personal character – his infidelities, his evasiveness, and his lack of integrity. Yet, Clinton’s ability to survive these scandals are a true testament how politically cunning and brilliant the man was.

President Clinton was a man entangled in his own ruins. He went from one lie to another and eventually was so caught up in them, that he was trapped. These lies brought on his downfall as a great leader. He was flawed like everyone, yet being a representative of the people, you need to keep these flaws hidden so that weakness is not shown. His failings were revealed to the whole world and his pride and integrity fell with them. The world no longer saw a leader, but a broken man. This was his ultimate failure. However, another big failure Clinton had while in office was his failure to

During the 1930s and ’40s, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians in the US and Europe were making observations of the ill-effects on personality development of prolonged institutional care and frequent changes of mother-figure during the first years of life. Among them was a psychiatrist who, prior to receiving his medical training, had studied developmental psychology. His name was John Bowlby. At this time mainstream psychoanalytic

The name of my President is Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America. Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. Bill was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before he was born. Bill’s birth name was William Jefferson Blythe III. His mother, Virginia Cassidy Blyth, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing and find a way to support herself and Bill Clinton, and he stayed with his grandparents in Hope. Eldridge and Edith Cassidy taught Bill strong values and beliefs teaching him that everyone is created equal no matter how different of skin or race they seemed. His mother returned in

Annotated Bibliography: In this article, the author is making an argument that sexual abuse causes brain development problems in the long run. These children gain “a less flexible state of equilibrium” (Gaskill 37). They then become poor socialized and have problems in regards to emotional and physical health. In order to these children, they need to be helped immediately,

Howe (2010) states “The majority of parents who maltreat their children have problems metalizing their children’s psychological condition. Their own histories tend to be ones of rejection, abuse, neglect, trauma and loss. Never having been fully recognized as an independent, complex psychological being themselves, they have problems relating to their children as complex, separate psychological beings” (pg. 336).

The second perspective is the psychodynamic perspective. The psychodynamic perspective emphasizes how the role of early childhood experiences, the unconscious mind and interpersonal relationships play a part in abnormal behavior. This perspective evolved from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory which generally contended that psychological disorders are the outcome of anxiety which is produced by unresolved, unconscious conflicts.