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Murders the people responsible Flees to Sicily Relationship with Apollonia Brothers murder Responsibility of family Marry Kay Legitimize Family Business
Godfather II n III
Business with Hyman Roth Kills his brother, Fredo Handover mafia activities to other families Daughter relationship with Vincent Rise of Vincent, his nephew
Lonely death
This kind of behavior reflects the influence of his infantile desires ID and exemplifies the Pleasure Principle. Example: He knew that Carlo Rizzi was responsible for his brother s death. But Michael kills Carlo only after Don Vitos death because Carlo is still family. This represents the Intervention of his Ego to come up an acceptable solution.
He waits till his mothers death to kill his brother Fredo who betrayed him and unintentionally leads to the attempt on his life.
psychosexual development
Freud believed that personality develops through a series of childhood stages during which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain areas. 5 stages:
Oral Stage:
The primary conflict at this stage is the weaning process--the child becomes dependent upon caretakers. If fixation occurs at this stage, Freud believed the individual would have issues with dependency or aggression.
Phallic stage:
Michaels personality could also be seen as fixated on the phallic stage of psychosexual development. Although as a young adult he never had ambitions of taking over the family business, it is evident that he had an unconscious Oedipus complex.
Defense Mechanisms
Rationalization:
He uses Rationalization by not letting Kay and his family know his Business.
He lies to them in order to protect them from knowing all of the criminal acts he does. Michael uses rationalization as defense mechanism, but only for the protection of his family.
Agreeableness Extroversion
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism Openness
Ruthless:
Michael, accepts a business meeting request by Sollozzo where he shoots and kills both the drug dealer and his corrupt, police captain body guard. Michael killed Carlo as just consequence for the death of his brother, even at the expense of his sister and his newly baptized godson. Suspicious :As a mafia hood he is cautious and suspicious of the people around him.
Critical :
Reserved :
Michael was very reserved . Even at an occasion like her sisters marriage he spent time with his girl friend alone. But as a Don he had to spend time on the Family Business which involves a sense of extroversion.
Ambitious:
Establish himself as a prominent mob boss in New York City. He never moved to any alternative.
Movie 1: He tries to dominate over all the mafia families. Movie 2: He tries to expunge all charges against him made by the senate. Movie 3: He works to make Corleone family legitimate.
Strategic:
Michael is a strategist, he plans to counter all possible attacks that could happen to him or his family in any way.
Emotionally stable :
When Michael was about to leave Sicily for home . One of the crime families had found out where Michael was being harbored and rigged his car to explode once the ignition was started, only it was his new wife, Apollonia, who had started the car. She was killed. He was emotionally stable after such a huge loss to him.
Calm :
Michael has aspects of both extremes because, although on the outside, he appears calm and content, internally he is very alert and tense. Michael volunteers to kill Sollozzo in the first part, not out of revenge, but rather out of calm, levelheaded business sense. Scores average on the neuroticism parameter
Original thinker:
Although he was not very imaginative or artistic, his plans for control are very original.
Frankness:
While in Sicily, Michael sees a woman, follows her to her home, and very bluntly asks her father for her hand in marriage before ever knowing her name.
Physiological needs
He was the son of Don Vito Corleone The God Father. He belongs to one of the wealthiest and powerful families.
Self Esteem
Lower needs:
He was respected by his friends and other families.
Higher needs:
I will become wiser when I am dead
Self Actualization
He constantly tries to protect his family from the mafia threats. He tries to be an ideal parent. He kills all his enemies(tentative threats) and becomes the head of mafia in New York for 20 years.
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