Hector,an Adolescent,often Engages in Rash Driving

question 53

Essay

Hector,an adolescent,often engages in rash driving.Though he has witnessed several of his friends getting hurt,he feels that such an eventuality will never happen to him.His friends have advised him not to drive while drinking.However,Hector believes that he is different from everyone else,and no one can understand how he really feels.Explain Hector's bevior using the adolescent egocentrism approach.

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Definitions:

Synchronicity

An acausal connecting principle in which things go together but are not causally linked.

Jungian

Pertaining to the theories and concepts developed by Carl Jung, particularly in relation to the collective unconscious and archetypes.

Archetype

A universally recognized symbol or character that recurs across cultures and literature, representing common patterns of human life.

Individuation

Carl Jung’s term for the process of psychological development.