Roderick’s Intimate and Platonic Relationships
Due to continuous imprinting of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, Roderick finds interacting with others as a challenge. For that reason, it appears that Roderick is prone to sabotaging any type of intimate and/or platonic relationship before it could develop into a possible healthy one. This is why it seems as if he is encountering a conflict within his personality.
Roderick’s conflicting personality described within the psychoanalytic model
According to Freud theory on the intrapsychic conflict, “The id, ego and superego do not coexist peacefully (Cloninger, 2013, p. 30). Therefore, observing Roderick’s behavior it can appear that his id, ego, and superego personality are disagreeing. In