Carl Rogers "sees mental health as the normal progression of life, and he sees mental illness, criminality, and other human problems, as distortions of [the] natural tendency [in a person]" to be good or healthy. Rogers would say that Jimi is just experiencing a normal distortion of his true good and healthy self. It is the gap between his ideal self and his real self that are causing incongruity, and thus he feels depression.
In contrast to what Carl Rogers would say, Freud would assign fault to Jimi's id. "The id works in keeping with the pleasure principle, which can be understood as a demand to take care of needs immediately" (Boeree 4). Jimi obviously has some need that he needs to take care of, and because he is not doing so he is falling under depression. Freud would also blame the unconscious. He would hypothesize that the unconscious part of Jimi was telling him something, but Jimi was "driven to deny or resist becoming conscious of [those] motives" (Boeree 3). This could explain his loss of feelings and the slip into depression, but it still does not explain his motives. .
The second verse of the song reads:.
"Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain.
You make love, you break love.
It's all the same.
When it's, when its over, mama.
Music, sweet music.
I wish I could caress, caress, caress.
Manic depression is a frustrating mess".
In this second verse we get a motive as to why Jimi could be experiencing his depression. Jimi Hendrix had a problem with woman. Woman would not stay out of his life and they would not stay in his life. Jimi Hendrix was lovesick. To an average person being lovesick is a normal feeling that everyone experiences at least once if not numerous times in ones life. A man like Jimi Hendrix was not the average musician let alone the average person. A rockstar has a different life than the average person. The drugs, sex, and alcohol were not satisfying him. Jimi Hendrix was in need of positive regard.
