The case, which we will be analyzing through 2 theories of development, is the case of a girl named Ashlee Martinson. She was teenage girl who used to writing blogs and poems related to torturing and killing people. On March 7, 2015 Ashlee Martinson’s parents were found dead at their home. On March 7, 2015 itself, Martinson had a fight with her parents because of which she left the home but was brought back by her father. She was to kill herself when her father tried to stop her and instead of killing herself she deliberately killed her father. After that she went to her mother to seek some comfort but instead she got a yelling from her because of which Martinson stabbed her mother too. This is the case, which I will be analyzing through 2 theories of development namely: 1. Sigmund Freud’s Psychosexual Theory of Development 2. Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of Development Beginning with the Freud’s Psychosexual Theory of Development, this theory was created to explain human development relating to how the mind works. Sigmund Freud 's theory of psychosexual development is based on the idea that parents play a crucial role in managing their children 's sexual and …show more content…
work, education or political activities). Also pressuring someone into an identity can result in rebellion in the form of establishing a negative identity, and in addition to this feeling of unhappiness. This is the stage, which is an answer to what was the theory behind Martinson committing such a heinous crime of killing her parents. The inability to form an identity in the society led her to establish such a identity and her past made her such a negative person in herself that when she tried to kill herself, she saw her father and instead of killing herself killed him because she thought that the reason of her misery was her father and he should be the one who should be