Regarding Henry Tuner

Freud was a Psychoanalytic Psychology, first suggest that everyone has a large unconscious. He then continued on to identify three parts of the personality: Id, Ego, and Superego. According to Freud the Id is the reservoir of instinctual and biological urges, Ego is the rational, thoughtful decision-maker, and lastly Superego is the source of conscience that inhibits the socially undesirable impulses of the Id. In the movie “Regarding Henry”, Henry Tuner is wealthy, high-powered, very successful Manhattan Lawyer appears to have a perfect wife, daughter, and life; In reality he is cold to the heart and is unable to experience love in his daily existence. Then was shot and from that point on everything in Henry’s life has changed forever. His natural state following the accident was Id because he showed signs that he did do more actions due to his desired urges. Henry displayed Id after his accident by wanting to stay in the recovery, steals money from his house, then precedes to leave and buys himself food and a dog. Also, he wanted to read in more depth about old cases that he didn’t recall of. Furthermore, …show more content…
Id being the pleasure principle and getting everyone of our needs and wants meet with no reality check. Ego is based on the more reality state, taking into consideration that we can not always have what we want and allowing to sometimes have what we want but the reality of the situation is taken into account. Superego is reguarding the situation we should focus on the moral problem. Henry was a high-powered, wealthy lawyer who had a turn in his life. This turn gave him chronic illness which has side effects of loss of memory, independence, sense of identity, and freedom. Outside of his rehabilitation center he was scared that he would not be able to cope with the outside world leading him to the Id state to make him feel more comfortable in the new