Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married is a psychological thriller in the eyes of most of the population, who cannot relate to drug abuse. The movie plays upon a disheveled family who cannot cope with the death of the youngest child years beforehand. Yelling, arguing, and fighting occurs as problems arise when Kym, the youngest daughter, arrives back from rehab. All chaos breaks loose as ties and relationships are broken. Everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. The best part about the movie is the setting, a wedding. The mixture between love, happiness, and hatred makes for a toxic cocktail of emotions. Multiple theories created by Freud, Jung, Adler, and Erikson are included in the movie. One of these theories is the id, ego, and superego. The underlying psychological aspect of the film cannot be seen so easy because the chaos and unusual scenes of the movie take most attention away from detail. The psychodynamic theory can be split into three parts: id, ego, and superego; theoretical elements; strategies and techniques used to cure one’s problem. The best way to describe the movie is using the psychodynamic theory, which opens up doors that cannot be opened without a better insight.

The first part of the theory is the id, ego, and superego. Sigmund Freud’s most important idea was that the human psyche has more than one aspect. Freud believed that the psyche was structured into three parts, the id, ego, and superego, all developing at different stages of a person’s life. Each one is a structure, not a part of the brain. The id is the primitive and instinctual part of the brain which contains sexual and aggressive drives. The superego is more of a moral conscience and takes into account what society deems as normal. The ego is the realistic part that mediates between both systems, balancing both desires. Kym, the protagonist, does not have a perfectly balanced ego. She tends to act more on her instincts and desires and does not take into account morals. She likes to focus the attention upon herself, both because of her lifestyle within rehabilitation and how demanding her desires are. Rachel seems to understand what society deems as morally correct, but sometimes lets loose and relies on her instincts too much. Rachel is unstable with her emotions and does not have a firm grasp on her ego. She diagnoses the family members, but does not reflect upon her own traumatic experiences including the past. The father has too large of a superego and puts others desires above his own, as seen when he enables Kym to be destructive. The mother is too emotionally and physically dissociated with the family to be able to develop an ego around them. She puts on a façade and loses all sincere emotions, not applying her ego at all. The overall family is extremely dysfunctional. The ego, id, and superego can help to identify the stem for each problem.

The next part of the psychodynamic theory are the theoretical elements that affect people’s lives. The theoretical elements that influence a person’s behavior are rooted in childhood experiences and various psychosexual stages. A person’s overall behavior is guided by two primary drives: Eros, sex and life drive; Thantos, aggressive and death drive. The combination of instinct, both drives, and past events come together