Lindsay Lohan Personality Analysis

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Lindsay Lohan is an actress who was born on July 2, 1986 to Dina and Michael Lohan in New York City, NY. Lohan’s career began at a very young age, at the age of three she made her debut as a model, and she appeared in many television commercials throughout her childhood. Lohan acted in many films that were incredibly successful, such as: The Parent Trap, Life-Size, Freaky Friday, Get a Clue, Mean Girls, etc. These movies were definitely some of my favorites growing up, so needless to say I was a big fan of Lindsay Lohan. I was completely shocked when I started to learn about Lohan’s troubling lifestyle in late 2000s, to me it seemed very sudden but went downhill very quickly. I thought it would be interesting to analyze Lohan’s personality …show more content…

According to Sigmund Freud, the structure of human personality consists of three factors: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id, is something that is imbedded in us when we are born, and it is responsible for all “drives and urges”. Lohan’s Id would be her reckless behaviors because of imbedded urge for stimulation. The ego develops within the first two or three years and it related to reasoning, and ‘constrains’ the id to reality. The superego is developed around the age of 5 through social interactions. And this part of the mind is responsible for maintaining social values and ideals. This part of Lohan’s mind conveys what behaviors are acceptable and which are unacceptable, and I feel like in the past Lohan’s Id overruled her superego, but it seems like her superego is improving because she is not as reckless as she was previously.
I feel like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid can be used to understand how Lohan’s childhood has influenced her personality. The needs in Maslow’s pyramid are organized heretically into levels. The needs lower on the pyramid are more ’pressing’ than the needs on the upper level. Starting from the lower portion of the pyramid, the needs are: Physiology, safety, belonginess, esteem, and lastly

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