Two Personalities, One Stripper

For the past 2 and a fractional years I defend been living with my silk hat friend, Bailey, who is equal a sister to me in a lot of federal agencys. This is especially true in regards to the federal agency in which we ar fitting to openly pull in each other about everything and anything, merely like well-nigh sisters do. In fact, our relationship is so strong Bailey even feels safe enough to curse me with the intimate, detailed stories she brings home with her every weekend later running(a)(a) at Shot Gun Willies.If you seaportt guessed by straight, my roommate moonlights as a stripper, and has been working as much(prenominal) for the past year. I chose to write about Bailey because of the various slip flair in which I have witnessed her having to work forcetally, and physically trans frame of reference herself in rewrite to cope with the trials and tribulations that come from working at a strip club. As well as the damaging repercussions this sign of occupation has had on her boilers suit perceptions of self, the world, and her relation to/in the world.It is withal because of Baileys tell exposure to the lustful, perverted, and greedy sides of people that the carry to gravel a completely parvenue and separate constituent arose, and Baileys alter ego Kimber was created. Throughout this semester, we have learned about many variant theorists and their philosophies on the different, complex environments and experiences that friend to contri providede to the development of the gentlemans gentleman soulfulnessality. For this paper I chose to use the concepts and musical themes of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, and Donald Winnicott.Soon later on learning about the diverse beliefs each of these theorists attri entirelyed to the induction, enhancement, and s reallyise of an individuals functionlity, I started to test a correlation amid them and the weekly conversations/stories my roommate and I had about her experiences working at Willies, and the psychological do that were beginning to develop from invariantly macrocosm in this type of environment. When looking for at Baileys stead from a few of Freuds perspectives we rouse see the development of defenses starting to take root.By this I mean that Bailey begins to unconsciously employ a physique of psychological means to help view as anxiousness-provoking framework out of her awareness in order to cut d consume or avoid anxiety (Beneath the Mask, pg. 43). One of the ways in which Bailey does this is by what Freud conceptualized as being a type of neuroses he referred to as Defense Neuroses. To Freud, this type of defense originally arose from the egos set about to protect our consciousness against threatening sexual thoughts.To e, this configuration of neuroses is depicted in the formation of Baileys new belief that all men are lying, scurvy perverts as a way of protecting herself against the idea that she is somehow dirty and perve rted herself for being a stripper, and secretly liking to dance naked in summit of strangers. This form of defense neuroses canister also be seen d iodine the way in which Bailey tries to keep her stripper spirit completely separate, and hidden from the shack of her life and the world by denying and suppressing any booking in it, because of the fact that she feels guilty about decision some enjoyment in taking her clothe shoot for money.Bailey also uses another one of Freuds neuroses techniques in order to avoid experiencing anxiety, called Obsessional Neuroses, which is a disorder that involves individuals engaging in ritualistic acts to help keep them from feeling anxiety. This can be seen through the way in which Bailey routinely comes home from work, and in advance doing anything else (i. e. taking off her beup, wig, or stripper clothes) she must(prenominal) immediately sit down, and smoke one to two bowls of weed in order to forget, as well as dull the experiences of that nights events.While still being a teensy high, Bailey must take two showers so that she can thoroughly clean her entire body with exfoliating ooze and a scrub brush before passing to bed. She referrers to these showers as her way of escaping from the people, mentality, and feelings work puts her in by watching all her problems being washed aside and sucked down the drain. If Bailey does not perform one or both of these rituals she is unable to unwind from work, which in countermand makes her become highly agitated, and oerwhelmed with a virtuoso of anxiety about being a bad person because of how she chooses to financially support herself.Baileys urge to infinitely scrub her body multiple times, represents her unconscious need to compulsively clean the outside of her body in order to no grander feel emotionally dirty or unclean on the inside. some other way in which Bailey uses obsessional neuroses to cope with being a stripper, and avoid the emotional anxieties that come with this occupation, is through her ritualistic preparation for work.As in, the way in which she routinely transforms herself from Bailey into the completely separate Kimber. The metamorphosis from Bailey to Kimber begins with a head to toe makeoer so extreme Bailey becomes well-nigh unrecognizable. This detailed process involves such things as, the application of count makeup that is a few shades also dark for Baileys natural complexion, in ferment making her look like she is tanner than she very is, followed by thick amounts of pink blush, heavy eyeball makeup, and fake eye lashes.Bailey then organizes an outfit for Kimber that contains such essential items as vibrantly colored fishnet stockings, octet inch silver platform stiletto high-heels, two G-strings, and withstand but not least a top and bottom set that barely leave anything to the imagination. The ritualistic transmutation into Kimber is finally complete when Bailey puts on her long platinum blonde wig, and m odifies her voice to sound higher(prenominal) for the rest of the night until she removes the wig.Bailey routinely performs these practices in order to try and repress all the anxieties that arise from working in such an atmosphere, as well as maintain a level of disconnect from the sort of anxiety-provoking experiences that take place in the stripper world. If for some reason Bailey does not have the opportunity to qualifying into her Kimber self, then she is almost instantaneously plagued with a sense of worry about not being able to make money because she is overly much like herself, as well as the fear that individual will recognize her as Bailey, which to her signifies the end of her life and her world as she knows it.Through Freuds perspective, both of these types of compulsive doingss can be seen as a form of avoidance by means of distraction, as well as a type of voluntary penance for having engaged in behaviors that were pleasurable but deemed as being bad (Beneath t he Mask, pg. 43). To me Baileys creation of Kimber represents a lot of different components to Carl Jungs theories on ainity, and its development.The first is Jungs concept of the Persona Archetype, which is the front we present to others, because companionable living makes demands for certain kinds of behavior (Beneath the Mask, pg. 65). Society does this by establishing certain expectations and certain roles around which we must wipe out our one-on-one selves (Beneath the Mask, pg. 165). It is in this way that Kimber has become one of Baileys much preponderating personas, in that Kimber is the mask Bailey wears in order to hide her private self from the people she encounters while working in the strip club. At first, the construction of the Kimber persona seemed like a good buffer between the people at the club and Baileys private self, however this persona soon began to envelope Bailys psyche.This happened because the Kimber persona was given the opportunity to take over t he psyche through becoming too accustomed to certain aspects of the created persona, which was due to the need for its continual and constant use. It is in this way that Kimbers experiences have alter Baileys views on life and the world. As a result of this, Bailey now perceives all of her interactions and experiences in the real world outside of the strip club too narrowly in relation to men, and their specific social role and function in the world.For example, Bailey cannot help but only see men in one of two ways. To her they are every a form of testosterone driven, easily accessible capitol, that takes little to no exertion to manipulate and acquire, or they are cheap, dirt-bag assholes just looking to score with anything that walks. This type of black and white thought is directly connected to the way in which Kimber categorizes, and views men at the club in order to make her nights there as lucrative as possible.This transmutation to Baileys opinions of men represents jus t how strong and successful the persona of Kimber has become in taking over Baileys psyche. These changes in Baileys way of thinking have also coincidently led to a break in her Continuity of Self, which is the way she has sensed herself as being throughout her life up until this point. Meaning that because of the modifications to Baileys psyche that have substantial out of the creation of her Kimber persona, Bailey now perceives her role indoors the world and society differently, due to repetitive personal and situational experiences in the club.For instance, Bailey now sees herself as having more personal power over men and people in general, because of the ways in which she has learned to use her sex as a manipulative tool. Conversely she now also has a lower sense of her overall self-worth, due to the fact that because she makes money solely off of her looks and nothing else, Bailey has begun to believe that this is all that she is with nothing more to offer the world.In turn this type of mindset has helped to create many diverse types of complexes ranging from the formation of different archetypal related complexes, as well as other male related issues. hen can also be seen in the reverse way Bailey has begun to see the role of women in spite of appearance the world, which is that they are either judgmental prudes or excepting sexual beings, in that they are either secure or not with their own sexuality enough to except or deny the fact that strippers are real people too, and that they shouldnt be judged simply on the basis of occupational choices. terms of what her specific social role, and purpose is within society in relation to men, and their use in the world.