In the Netflix-based TV show, Friday Night Lights, Tim Riggins is a fullback/running back for the Dillon Panthers of Dillon High School. The show takes place in the fictional small town of Dillon, Texas. This town is all about Friday night and high school football. Each of the football players have unique characteristics and come from diverse backgrounds, that somehow work cohesively, to make a state-championship winning football team. Tim lives with his older brother, Billy. Their parents both left them when they were young. Throughout the series, Tim is portrayed as an alcoholic, even though he’s only 17. Tim constantly is seen buying alcohol at the gas station (no, it’s not legal, but it’s a small town in Texas and he’s on the football team, …show more content…
Another one of the big aspects about Tim is that he likes to sleep around. Multiple times throughout the series it is mentioned that he has slept with many girls at the school, and it is a well known fact around town. Yet, throughout all the negativity surrounding Tim, he does have moments of caring, kindness, and absolute genuineness. In Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory, he focuses on psychological forces, especially the unconscious. Tim Riggins personality can be broken down into three main aspects, each of which we will look at through Freud’s theory. The first aspect is Tim’s alcoholism. According to Freud, people’s actions can be caused by repressed memories living in our unconscious. In Tim’s case, his parents both left him and his brother when he was a kid. Now, in the show, Tim doesn’t really ever seem to mention how his parents leaving affected him. So, it is possible, if we apply Freud’s theory, that Tim has repressed the thoughts of his parents leaving to the unconscious part of his brain, so, unknowingly, he drinks to cover up the pain and sadness from that …show more content…
If he took on the negative role within the third psychosocial stage, he would not have been able to gain the strength of purpose. Therefore, Tim probably drinks to help with the guilt and lack of purpose. The next aspect of Tim is his sexual promiscuity. Erikson’s sixth theory is intimacy vs. isolation. In this stage the main strength that one is trying to achieve is love, and the most significant people at this time are partners in friendship and sex. For Tim, he fell to the negative pole in the spectrum, which is isolation. Because of this, he feels the need to incur many sexual encounters, hence the sexual promiscuity. Finally, the next stage that applies is the seventh stage of Erikson’s theory, generativity vs. self- absorption. In this stage, the main strength to be achieved is care, and the significant people are within divided labor and the shared household. Now, based on age, Tim being only 17, he hasn’t yet reached this stage, yet, one could argue that based on his experiences and how old he seems, he has gotten to this stage. Tim is very involved on the football team, and even goes to great lengths to gain membership again when he gets kicked off for
In chapter eight, Tim Tebow gets his first taste of the recruitment
“Texas Forever” is a mantra which Tim Riggins, the main character in the television series, Friday Night Lights, lives by. This show is about an entire town obsessed with football and something they base their dreams upon. However, these dreams do not come without compromise. We can identify ourselves and others with the most the characters in Friday Night Lights, and are pulled immediately into their lives since their situations makes them feel like genuine individuals. In this paper, I will argue that Friday Night Lights demonstrates the metaphysical theory of the basic question: “Ultimately, what is there?”
Tim would have expected Life to be the most safe one of their family due to his loyalty to Britain, but he was captured anyway. The death of Life Meeker makes Tim develop a strong hatred toward the Loyalists due to the fact that they do not value loyalty or care about the innocent, such as this instance. Tis develops Tim’s final decision of neutrality is influenced by Jerry’s death because both the British and Patriots caused the death of the ones he cared most
The Unexpected That Changed My Life for the Better Friday Night Lights not only refers to the stadium that football players play in, but it also refers to every Friday night in September through November. That simple phrase brings back several memories, that carry emotional weight. Memories that are exciting, awe-inspiring, and even painful, and frustrating. The poem “Friday Night Lights” by Gerald Locklin summarizes some of the emotions that come with playing a sport, and brings about a deeper thought process. Being a part of a sport becomes your life, it teaches life lessons, helps build your personality, and shows you passions you never would have dreamed of.
With the seventh season of ‘The Walking Dead’ not being aired for some more months, there has been several speculations from fans on who killed Negan, and what the dealings between Ezekiel and the Kingdom were. Fans have started pre-empting on what would probably happen when the Walking Dead would return to the screens. Some fans have developed a theory, which states that Michonne may betray Rick Grimes.
This means that he values life because he would save any human in trouble. Tim is portrayed as non-daring in the beginning of the story but shows his true character when he steps up and proves his strength in a chaotic time. Tim proves to readers that he can deliver in high risk situations. This is demonstrated when he and his sister’s lives were in danger because of an approaching dinosaur. He made a trail of steak to the freezer and when the dinosaur followed it he was brave enough to, “...Sprint and close the door behind the velociraptor.
If he does not conform, he will lose everything including his personal beliefs, on the contrary, if he does conform he risks his life. Conforming in any way, shape or form has consequences, usually ending with losing something. Tim realizes this when he has to chose between himself and others. This could also be a form of peer pressure. Tim has a desire to live a normal life; work and play, a family someday,
Lastly the fact that his brother asked him to go to the nfl draft with him shows how important football is to Ty. Ty is very loyal to his
After his father’s capture, Tim decides to become a Tory as he thought the Patriots were the actual ones who took his father away. However, after British soldiers come to his town to kill and capture his Patriot neighbors, he doesn’t want to be a Tory anymore. Even through he decides not to be a Tory, he doesn’t switch over to the Patriot side either. After a few years, after his father’s capture,
This quote from the short story illustrates how Tim felt about leaving for the war. He knew that it was against his beliefs for him to leave. He eventually left for the war, still not believing in what he was fighting for which resulted in Tim losing sight of who he was. He allowed the pressures of society to influence him and morph his character into one resemblant of the popular belief of the time. In the story of The Book Thief, Hans Hubermann experiences a similar situation to Tim.
Erikson’s developmental stages consist of the age during the stages, and what the person goes through during that stage. Erikson puts social and cultural aspects into Freud's biological and sexual theory. Each stage has its conflict and the person must find the balance in between the two
Erikson was highly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory of Development. Although, at first Freud was limited to childhood based on the phallic stage, Erikson focused on developing a lifespan theory. The eight stages are as followed: Trust vs. Mistrust (infancy): The basic and fundamental psychological task is for infants to develop a sense that their needs will be met by the outside world. Is their caregiver responsive, reliable, and willing to meet their needs? That basic trust is facilitated by a responsive caregiver once an infant gets hungry, injured, or needs to be changed.
His childhood, education experiences, and careers influenced his contributions to lifespan development. As a “neo-Freudian”, Erikson developed eight psychosocial stages of development that greatly correspond with Freud’s Psychosexual Stages (Broderick
Erikson was influenced by Freud who theorized that a person develops in psychosexual stages most influenced in the first 5 years of life. Erikson deviated from Freud in that he thought that we are influenced by our social interactions and our desire
Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development Many researchers have tried to revise after Freud 's psychoanalysis, to show the value associated with the process and I have to follow their development (Kail, Cavanaugh, 2004). The most prominent of the so-called ego psychology was Erik Erikson. As with other postfreydistov for Erickson the greatest importance was the self and its adaptive capacity in connection with the problem of the individual. However, this does not mean that he neglected his theory of biological or social factors (Kail, Cavanaugh, 2004).