PSYCHOANALYSIS OF MARILYN MONROE Intro

This research paper presents a psychoanalytic analysis of Marilyn Monroe. Psychosocial development includes two latter stages of Erikson's theory. Omnibus analysis discusses personality factors which include the following: abilities, talents, and temperament, family members and cultural tradition, sexual behavior, cognitive style, affect and impulses, motives, attitudes and impulses, and relationships to principle figures.

Erikson's later stages of psychosocial development included "intimacy versus isolation" for the young adult, and "generativity versus self-absorption" for the middle adult. Marilyn Monroe failed to encounter true intimacy and she became isolated. The youth who is not sure of her identity does not achieve interpersonal intimacy and is thrown into acts of intimacy that are promiscuous and are without true fusion. Marilyn was unsure of who she was, actress was her only identity. She maintained her isolation through a series of idealized and exhibitionistic relationships (Erikson, 1968, pp. 135-137; & Chessick, 1983, pp. 161-170).

Marilyn also failed to develop generativity; she was and remained self-absorbed. Man needs to be cared for and to be needed. Marilyn remained focused on unmet needs for care. She also failed at having children which reduced her chances of applying the generativity drive to her offspring. Generativity also includes creativity and produ

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took her in with other children to board. Marilyn's mother returned to work when Marilyn was two months old. The neighbors (Bolenders) were rural people who were very religious. Gladys visited Marilyn on Saturdays. Marilyn stated that she never knew her mother. At four months of age, Marilyn's maternal grandmother lived across the street from the Bolenders. The grandmother became psychotic and was committed to an asylum where she died of a heart attack. Marilyn reported waking from a nap and struggling with a pillow that her grandmother was trying to smother her with. Glacys then became more depressed and withdrawn, with paranoid delusions and was hospitalized; she lost all interest in Marilyn. Marilyn had no memories of affection from her mother or her foster parents (Ansbacher, 1970, p. 44; & Chessick, 1983, pp. 162-163). At around seven, Marilyn and her mother lived with an English couple who were less religious, for a year, until her mother had another psychotic breakdown. Next Marilyn became the custody of a guardian (her mother's friend) and she lived in a series of foster homes. She claims that she was raped by a border during this period. After age nine she was brought to an orphanage. Next there were more f
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