Freud and Bandura "Analyze This"

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The author seeks to show how Sigmund Freud's personality theory and Albert Bandura's competing theory can help shed light on contemporary theater, including the 1999 film "Analyze This", about Paul Vitti, a mob figure who experiences guilt over "whacking" his enemies. The writer believes that while Freud would contend that Paul Vitti's ID and ego have taken over his life, Bandura would insist that the internal and external are heavily interrelated, and inextricable from one another.

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"Freud would remark that Paul Vitti's id and ego have taken over, and his superego is dormant. His actions are largely, if not completely, devoid of ethical considerations. Murder, beatings and extortion are part of Paul Vitti's day. However, the more sympathetic Bandura would offer that Paul Vitti's behavior is learned, since as mob boss, we infer that he grew up with the mob."

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