Id, Ego, Superego Project

Id, Ego, Superego Project Essay Per Sigmund Freud, author of the psychoanalytic theory and designer of the tripartite personality, the key to a healthy personality is a balance between the id, the ego, and the superego. When this prompt was first presented, it seemed obvious that a balance scale, similar to the scales of justice, would be the perfect artistic representation of the unique relationship between the id, ego, and superego. Furthermore, the prompt called for quotes to express the three psychoanalytic components and the role the components played within King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus. These quotes, two per card, are inside a box and should always be in an order in which, within each set of three cards, the ego quotes separate the id and superego quotes, so as to demonstrate that the ego is always the middle factor which is berated by the other two factors …show more content…
These colors were selected because what they represent. Red is brash and loud and therefore symbolizes the id, which controls short term decisions based of the lust for pleasure or the need to relieve anger. White is pure and is meant to embody the superego which strives for moral perfection. The manikin is pink since the ego is supposed to be the middle ground between the id and the superego, always making decisions based on reason and commonsense, rather than short term results or idealistic perfection. If enough pressure is applied to of the manikin’s arms, the manikin will tilt in favor of one side over the other and mind, or the representation, will become unstable. Within the buckets themselves, there is an equal amount of Lego bricks, four to be exact, to show that at that moment the mind is balanced. In addition, each brick represents a quote, either from Daniel K. Lapsley and Paul C. Stey or Sophocles, which can be found inside the gray speckled box in front of the