Monday, April 24, 2017
Psychoanalytic: Scandal
Scandal is an ABC drama about Olivia Pope who is a "Fixer" in Washington D.C., basically if there is a problem with a major politician she is there to put out the fire. But the real scandal is that she is having an affair with the president of the United States. Living in one of the most power driven states, the audience sees that power is what Olivia craves. If she is not with with the president she starts to date the next up and coming senator or the director of the NSA. We learn that Olivia has a deferral in her pursuit of power. Each man she is with can never give the end satisfaction she looks for. When it becomes okay for her to date the president, she is not satisfied and ends up leaving him. The desire for what she thought it would be did not match up to the reality of what it was. 
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I have watched most of the season of Scandal and think that Olivia Pope is a "fixer" but yet she still does need fixing herself and can't find that man to complete her. She puts so much pressure on herself that in several episodes she begins to loose site of who she is. Great example!
ReplyDeleteHi Ciara,
ReplyDeleteAnother way you could also look at this is how Olivia Pope tends to have this huge tendency where she cannot be consistent enough in both her relationship with the President and then the one she holds with Jake Ballard. This problem may be reflected from her relationship with both of her parents, especially the messed up relationship with Rowan Pope.