Antwone Fisher

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Sigmund Freud founded psychodynamic theory. The primary focus of the psychodynamic theory is to understand how the client's past experiences affect what occurs in the present. Freud believed people repress or drive from their conscious undesirable or shameful thoughts. As a result, these thoughts become part of the subconscious (Billig, 1999). A major goal of the psychodynamic theory is to understand unconscious mental functioning, which includes a broad set of constructs of worldviews including Freud’s psychoanalytic thought and processes (Ivey, A., D’Andrea, Ivey, M. and Simek-Morgan, 2002). The major concepts of the psychodynamic theory are clearly represented in the film Antwone Fisher. The film displays many characteristics of the psychodynamic theory paying special attention to transference, resistance, repression, conscious, subconscious, free association, role-playing, and object relations.
One of the major concepts of the psychodynamic theory is that our object relations, the people who have played major roles in our lives, are important and necessary to our developmental history. According to the psychodynamic theory, these relations may be family, friends, and peers. Understanding the client’s developmental history is necessary to fully understand the client (Ivey et al., 2002). “According to the psychoanalytic theory, how an individual relates to others is essentially based on how she experienced herself vis-à-vis family members. The vicissitudes of interpersonal relationships depend very heavily on transferences from the individual’s family structure” (Turner, 1996, p.534). In trying to fully understand Antwone’s character, one would have to know his developmental history how he related to others with the family structure.
Many people influenced Antwone and played a major part in his developmental history, but the major person was Mrs. Tate. Mrs. Tate affected Antwone in more way...