Ego psychology

Most people have probably been told that they look exactly like someone else. However, there are over 7.4 billion people in the world, so there is an extremely small chance that someone looks exactly like you. The German term for “double goer,” a doppelganger is someone who looks exactly like you, and they don’t always have a positive influence on their counterpart. Though the topic of doppelgangers has been debated for many years, people haven’t exactly found out the chances of finding your…

person’s personality that the three main characters take up. Which happen to be the id, the ego and the superego. Carmilla as the id, Laura as the ego, and Laura’s father as the superego. This shows us even through fiction, Freud’s ideas of how a person’s personality is made up can still be applied to literature. The id. The id works directly with the ego sometimes even referred to as the id-ego to achieve the id’s selfish desires and wants. We can see the id emerge when a baby is…

subject of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, seem completely different. However, the two protagonists are very similar in many ways. Chris and Peter may seem like conflicting characters yet they share many similarities such as, both have an alter ego, both experience issues with family and both embrace the idea of ultimate freedom. These traits reveal that one cannot attempt to stay young forever. Throughout Into the Wild Chris McCandless, also known as Alex Supertramp, journeys into Alaska…

2) it is a disgusting kind of thing to rely on. He wants them to realize their insanity and come to grips with real life, and how life should be, without drugs. 2. Mustapha Mond is similar to Don John in that they both have power which feeds their ego. They both have the mindset that everything is in their power because they are in power. They create the rules, so they can choose whether to follow them or not. It surprises me that Mustapha seems so very accepting of John. One would think that…

I struggle academically in the start of high school mainly because I made the decision to hang out with a clique of people that diverted my focus in school and ultimately led me to creating an alter ego. I came into high school as a recent valedictorian graduate and suddenly I was doing poorly in school. Deeply inside I truly cared about my studies; however, I had to depict an image as if I trifle school in order to fit in the group. My home school and my community are located in a infamous…

greater idea or work from prior authors and writers. Arthur Miller uses this principle in his work, Death of a Salesman, through the actions of the characters, to subconsciously include Freudian psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud proposed the idea of the id, ego, and superego all composed in the division of the human psyche. The combination of the three make a model that can show underlying intentions for a person’s actions. The psychoanalysis that can be found in Miller’s work shows excruciating…

Jack is very well known in the countryside, he was wealthy and very socially accepted to everyone he knew. However, Jack was hiding a secret that no one was aware of, fueling his alter ego self and put aside is real identity and become someone else. Then, in the city Jack was known as Earnest; his two identities could not be more opposite. Unlike Jack, Earnest was the rebellious type; he was a womanizer flirting with women, partying…

boys realize that they need someone that can mediate between anarchy and complete control by rules. Ralph offers these qualities much like and ego in an unconscious mind. The elements of Freudian theory bring The Lord of the Flies to a whole different level that offers more for the reader to think about. The use of Ralph, Piggy, and Jack to represent the ego, superego, and id takes…

The Alter Ego of Jack Worthing “The Importance of Being Earnest (also called A Trivial Comedy for Serious People)” is a play written by Oscar Wilde in the late 1890's. Although it is comedy, it is also a social satire and it has some serious themes hidden in its lines. The themes here address Victorian social issues. In in the late 19th century, in the Victorian society, the life was not very easy. People were divided in social classes and there was a strict code of morals which people from…

Leonardo Di Vinci once said, “The greatest decision men suffer is from their own decisions.” Deception can occur in everyday life and is an important process for building relationships or in general social interaction. In the Shakespearean play, Hamlet uses deception to reveal the role that Claudius had in the death of his father. Hamlet uses deception to gain the knowledge needed to indict Claudius with the murder of his father, while Claudius is using deception to cover up his role within…