Which part of your personality is most prominent? Freud suggests that everyone has a large unconscious, and that there are three parts of each person’s personality. The id controls what one finds pleasurable, the ego rationalizes one’s thoughts, and the superego decides what is morally right. In the movie Regarding Henry, Henry Turner’s life is dramatically changed when he is shot while attempting to buy some much desired cigarettes. He awakes in a hospital to find his memory gone, along with control over most of his body. He and his physical therapist, Bradley, become close while he recovers. He finds his prior life as a top lawyer to be wrongful, and struggles to find how he could be such a person as he was. Henry’s natural state
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His superego would tell him what was right and wrong at the times that mattered, but in his free time when he was not looking to impress anyone, his id almost always got the better of him. Simple things like flicking paper at his daughter and buying a puppy because it appealed to him at the moment is what made him the man that he was at the end of the movie. Henry’s constant acts of immaturity was what made his wife and sister want to get to know him again, and in the end they were a much closer family because of his id. However, his id did not just control him after his accident. Things like his buying cigarettes were still a major part of his life before his memory got erased. It was revealed that his id was suppressed by his superego far less after. To conclude, Freud’s id, ego, and superego use the thoughts of pleasure, morals, and rationalization to decide what anyone does. In this case, Henry Turner’s id was the most prominent in his personality. Every person is in constant conflict with their id, ego, and superego whether they know it or not. It’s why human nature is how it is. Without a certain part of those three, the brain and thoughts would be polar opposites of how they are now. In the end, every decision made is changed because of Freud’s
His superego would tell him what was right and wrong at the times that mattered, but in his free time when he was not looking to impress anyone, his id almost always got the better of him. Simple things like flicking paper at his daughter and buying a puppy because it appealed to him at the moment is what made him the man that he was at the end of the movie. Henry’s constant acts of immaturity was what made his wife and sister want to get to know him again, and in the end they were a much closer family because of his id. However, his id did not just control him after his accident. Things like his buying cigarettes were still a major part of his life before his memory got erased. It was revealed that his id was suppressed by his superego far less after. To conclude, Freud’s id, ego, and superego use the thoughts of pleasure, morals, and rationalization to decide what anyone does. In this case, Henry Turner’s id was the most prominent in his personality. Every person is in constant conflict with their id, ego, and superego whether they know it or not. It’s why human nature is how it is. Without a certain part of those three, the brain and thoughts would be polar opposites of how they are now. In the end, every decision made is changed because of Freud’s