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Our rollercoaster takes place in the mind of an 11 year old girl. That girls name is Riley, our story centers around her and 5 emotions that occupy her brain. Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust are those characters. This film illiterates the complexity of emotions and the challenges of growing up as Riley faces moving from Minnesota to San Francisco.

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"Inside Out" follows Riley, an 11-year-old girl facing a significant transition as her family relocates from Minnesota to San Francisco. Within her wandering mind, five primary emotions—Joy, Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear—embody her feelings and assist her in navigating life's twisted challenges. Joy is Riley's dominant emotion, and she works hard to keep Riley upbeat, while Sadness often feels ignored and overtaken by Joy. As Riley struggles to adapt to her surroundings in a new area, Joy attempts to maintain full control over her emotions.  However, after an incident during a memory reminiscence, Joy and Sadness are accidentally transported away from Headquarters, the center where Riley's emotions are managed. This leaves Anger, Fear, and Disgust in charge which causes complete chaos, resulting in a plot change of the movie. Riley begins to act out and she feels disoriented as if she can no longer control her emotions. While Joy and Sadness were outside of Headquarters, they took a journey through the different parts of Riley's mind, like Imagination Land and Long-Term Memory, trying to find their way back. During this time, Joy learns about the importance of Sadness and how she plays a significant role in Riley's emotional well-being. The two eventually work together to return to Headquarters, helping Riley navigate a difficult time in her life. As the movie concludes, Joy realizes that a balance of every emotions essential for Riley's growth and happiness.

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Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development Explained

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Erik Erikson was a German psychologist born on June 15, 1902 and he is known for his psychosocial development. Erikson's academic journey began in art, but he shifted to psychology. He was studying under Anna Freud, during this experience Erikson was introduced to psychoanalytic theory and the importance of social and cultural influences on personality development.

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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development 

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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development 

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Erikson's psychosocial theory based on development is broken up into 8 stages. These stages represent each stage of life and the challenges that you must face during these stages in order to progress socially and psychologically. Erikson believed that these stages occur throughout ever humans lifespan, starting at infancy leading up until old age. Erikson also stated that successfully resolving these problems lead to strong connections with peers and a healthy personality overall.

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This stage takes place during the first stages of life, between the ages of 0-1. Infants deal with the challenge of Trust vs. Mistrust. During this stage infants learn to trust their caregivers to meet their needs. For example, Infants may cry because they're hungry in hopes that their Mother will tend to their needs by giving them a bottle or breast feeding. If they are tended to this leads to a sense of security but if their needs aren't tended to it could lead serious mistrust.

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This stage takes place during the phase of Early Childhood between the ages of one and three years old. During this stage of life children face the hardship of Autonomy vs. Shame. Children begin to develop a sense of independence and personal control without the assistance of their caregivers. Success with being on their own can lead to confidence, but failure can lead to shame.

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This stage happens during Preschool, which ranges from ages three to six, children face the challenge of Initiative vs. Guilt. As children grow older and they explore the world around them they begin to be more assertive and they take the initiative to do new things. Being successful in this leads to them taking more leadership and thinking that what they do is "good". Failure during this stage can make them believe that their actions are "bad" and they feel a sense of guilt when reflecting on their decisions.

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Erikson's Stage 4: Industry vs. Inferiority 

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Erikson's Stage 4: Industry vs. Inferiority 

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This stage takes place in the School age of life which is between the ages of six and twelve years old. The challenge that children face during this stage of life is Industry vs. Inferiority. As children develop and they're able to actually understand characteristics of the world they pick up on the sense of competence by social interactions and achieving their goals. Success leads to the feeling of Industry or having confidence in their ability to problem solve. Failure results in Inferiority or feeling inadequate to problem solve properly.

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Erikson's Stage 5: Identity vs. Role Confusion

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Erikson's Stage 5: Identity vs. Role Confusion

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This stage takes place during Adolescence, which is between the ages of 12-18. The conflict of Identity vs. Role Confusion can take a toll on humans. During this stage, teens are able to explore different identities, what makes them unique, and what their interests are. Successfully realizing who they are can lead to a strong sense of self. Failure can result in confusion of where they belong in society.

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Erikson's Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Erikson's Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation

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This stage takes place during Young Adulthood, which is between the ages of 18 and 40 years old according to Erikson. Throughout this era, individuals seek for deep relationships with their peers. Individuals begin to understand the complexity of having a significant other and how their lives may be affected by that decision. Success in this can lead to intimacy but failure in this may result in isolation.

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Erikson's Stage 7: Generativity vs. Stagnation 

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Erikson's Stage 7: Generativity vs. Stagnation 

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This stage takes place during Middle Adulthood, which is in between the ages of 40 and 65 years old. During this time adults attempt to give back to their community in order to help out the future generation. Success in this results in a sense of purpose but failure in this results in stagnation

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Erikson's Stage 8: Integrity vs. Despair 

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Erikson's Stage 8: Integrity vs. Despair 

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This stage occurs during late adulthood, from around age 65 onward. In this stage, individuals reflect on their lives and they evaluate their experiences and the things that they have done. Success in this can make them feel like they have led a meaningful life and achieved majority of their goals. Failure can result in them having regrets about their lives and feeling that their lives lacked purpose.

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"Inside Out" highlights the importance of stable and caring relationships in a child's early development. Riley’s emotional experiences and interactions with her parents have shaped her sense of trust positively. We see how they tended to her needs and protected her from certain things that may hurt her.

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As Riley grows, her emotions begin to help her assert her independence and express her feelings, reflecting the struggle for autonomy.

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As Riley grows up and her parents move her from Minnesota to San Francisco she attempts to explore her new environment. This can be seen as her initiative, but feelings of guilt arise when she feels she’s letting her parents down.

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Inside Out - Riley move to San Francisco [HD]

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Riley's struggles at school, where she wants to fit in and excel. Riley wants to make new friends but it is hard for her which highlights her developing competence and self-esteem, as well as the fear of inadequacy.

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The film overall illustrates Riley’s search for identity, particularly during her transition to a new city and school, where she grapples with who she is apart from her previous life from back in Minnesota. Inside out foreshadows at how this stage will eventually affect Riley but since she is only 12 years old we only see a glimpse of what could happen.

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This is the most important event in the movie, as it uproots Riley from her familiar life in Minnesota, her friends, and her hockey team to San Francisco. The transition brings feelings of loss, anxiety, and confusion to Riley which are feelings that she's never experienced before.

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Starting at a new school adds to Riley's sense of dislocation because she is forced to start all over. It is hard for her to cope and find someone to connect with because she is from a different state. She faces challenges in making new friends and fitting in, which intensifies her feelings of insecurity and sadness.

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The stress on her parents, particularly her mother, who is also adjusting to the move, influences Riley’s emotional state. Riley's mom doesn't know how to cope with her new emotions and her hormones. They're both struggling with Riley's emotions but their struggles impact how she processes her own feelings.

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Inside Out - Riley Argues with her Parents Scene

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The internal conflict between Joy and Sadness when they were accidentally removed from headquarters illustrates how Riley learns to cope with her emotions. At first Joy would always overthrow sadness and make her feel unimportant. As unexpected events unfolded, the importance of embracing sadness as part of her emotional growth happened.

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Inside Out - Joy And Sadness Get Back To Headquarters[HD1080i]

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In conclusion, "Inside Out" beautifully illustrates Erikson's theory of psychosocial development by depicting how Riley navigates the complexities of her emotions during a twisted life transition. The film aligns with Erikson's stages, particularly emphasizing the struggle between identity and role confusion in adolescence. As Riley experiences the upheaval of moving to a new city, we see her emotions—Joy, Disgust, Sadness, Anger, and Fear—work together to help her build her working identity throughout every hardship. "Inside Out" serves as a reminder that understanding and embracing all our emotions is essential for growth and self-discovery as we navigate through the lifecycle. Chapters 9 and 10 of Pomerantz's textbook focused on the theme of growth and self discovery through emotions and other psychological concepts. By showcasing the importance of emotional awareness, the film captures the essence of Erikson's theory in a cartoon form to explain his complexed thinking of the the developmental journey of childhood and adolescence.

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The identity of Riley was still being found throughout the whole movie of "Inside Out". This is a unique movie due to the fact that we watched the character grow up and we got to see the roles that each emotion played first hand. Erikson's Theory did an amazing job in highlighting the development of Riley because we were able to see how society affects the development of humans like Erikson stated. The theory was capable of capturing all the experiences of this Riley because we saw stages of life from infancy up until adolescents and it lined up perfectly with Eriksons timeline. Erikson's psychosocial theory is a good fit for assessing Riley from "Inside Out," as it provides a framework for understanding her development through various stages of life, particularly during her transition into adolescence. Overall, I feel like Erikson's theories and even other theorists ideas are valid to Rileys experience through the lifespan because we saw how she succeed at some of the stages and failed at others and how that built up and tore down her self esteem. Overall Riley was able to obtain her own personality while going through these stages and in Inside out 2 you can see how Riley is still following Erikson's Stages.