Freud would have much to say about a Man like Jack Bauer. Jack clearly carries out both his work and his personal life in a highly aggressive manner with very questionable morality. While the average person would just think that Jack acts the way he does because he cares about his country and his personal life, freud would definitely believe that Jacks attitude is due to his childhood upbringing.

In Freud's essay he states "In view of this significance of the infantile relation to the parents for the later selection of the sexual object, it is easy to understand that every disturbance of this infantile relation brings to a head the most serious results for the sexual life after puberty. Jealousy of the lover, too, never lacks the infantile sources or at least the infantile reinforcement. Quarrels between parents and unhappy marital relations between the same determine the severest predispositions for disturbed sexual development or neurotic diseases in the children." The latter part of this quote quote is certainly an accurate representation of Bauer. Bauer is not only divorced, but is extremely protective of his daughter. Jack acts as if it was a privilege to allow her to have her own password to her emails and then uses a government computer to hack her account. In Freud's mind, behaviors like this could be due to repressed sexual desires as a child.

Jacks behavior is not only agressive, but also extremely dominating. Jack feels as if he is always in the right. When Freud is discussing "Reaction Formation and Sublimation" concerning the "Sexual Latency" period of childhood, he talks about how when children are forced to hold back sexual desires, it later leads to personality problems. Freud states "They therefore awaken contrary forces (feelings of reaction), which in order to suppress such displeasure, build up the above mentioned psychic dams: loathing, shame, and morality." Jack almost seems as if he has a sort of shame or hatred toward himself that he puts onto other people. When Jack goes to extreme measures with a "terrorist" Freud would probably say that he would use more conventional means if it weren't for his own personality problems rooted in his childhood sexuality.

Freud would also probably link Jack's sense of all knowing and refusal to change his methods to the fact that he is a male. Freud claims that sexually as children females are open to changing the way they think whereas males are not. When discussin how children discover the differences in the sexes Freud says "The little girl does not react with similar refusals when she sees the differently formed genital of the boy. She is immediately prepared to recognize it". Jack surely isn't the type of person who is able to recognize and readily accept other cultures and beliefs.