Johanna Toledo

Professor Manning

PSYC 2301

March 20, 2017

Psychological perspective; Psychoanalytical based on Tangled

Psychology is the scientific study of the human thought, feelings and behavior.

Psychology is broken down into smaller parts. Psychoanalytic is a psychological perspective, it

focuses on unconscious motivation and early childhood. This plays back to Sigmund Freuds

theory called Psychoanalytic theory. The meaning of this perspective is to explain early

childhood can influence your decisions later in life by the experiences that have happened.

Unconscious motivation is a humanistic behavior that results from desires, impulses and

memories that are restrained into an unconscious state, this can influence all further actions, just

like an early childhood can influence future decisions.

The familiarity between psychoanalytic and the movie Tangled by Nathan Greno is the

way the main character, Rapunzel was raised. Rapunzel is a teenage girl that was initially

kidnapped by a witch as a baby. She was raised by that witch all her life until her early twenties.

She was raised in a tower all her life, she was told that if she left the tower she would leave all

safety. Her caregiver didnt want her to leave because it would hurt her, she had no good

intentions towards Rapunzel.

This psychoanalytic perspective ties into Tangled by giving the main character,

Rapunzel, a bad sense of wanting to go out to the real world and explore. Her early childhood
was based on lies and loneliness. The witch, who claims to be Mother Gothel, always

prohibited her to leave that tower because it would mean she was a target and was no longer

safety. She always had an unconscious motivation to leave the tower, she didnt know why she

wanted to explore a world full danger. When she left the tower she left all the lies and the

horrible attachment she had with her caregiver. Her early childhood shaped the way she saw the

world but she knew she wanted to be different and had the inner motivation to be different.