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…