The Ego and the Id

survive the punishments of the superego, and gain control over his life. Ultimately, this quote allows the reader to see further into the relationship between Beth and Conrad, and to understand the difficulty of Conrad’s struggle in letting his id and ego take control over his superego and his…

A Psychoanalytical Approach to “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Christmas is a time of celebration, joy, generous offerings, spending time with loved ones, and most importantly, coming together as a community. For the most part, everyone loves Christmas; except for the Grinch. In Dr.Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch is portrayed as a bitter, vengeful, old man who hates the entirety of the Christmas season. His indignant attitude is especially evident when he overlooks the Whos…

In Lord of the Flies, Jack and Ralph are foil characters along with binary oppositions to each other. Jack represents the primitive id while Ralph represents the ego of mankind. Jack returns to the beach where Simon and Ralph are building shelters after another unsuccessful attempt to kill a pig. Ralph and Jack engage in conversation. Ralph complains about the hunters of how they do not help with shelters and have not killed any pigs. Ralph says, “You wouldn’t care to help with the shelters, I…

2014; Freidman & Schustack, 2012). While their professional life represented the study and implementation of psychoanalysis, Karen Horney personal experiences changed her view of Freud’s perspective in turn offering a neo-analysis that emphasized the ego as well as the influence of society and culture. The following paper will review the key elements of…

How humans respond, how humans behave, how humans are interesting to others and how humans are different to others are all influenced by a person’s personality. Personality is the tendencies within a person that influences how they respond to their environment. There are different approaches to personality. One being the nomothetic approach which focuses on identifying the general laws that are put in place for all. The other being idiographic approach that focuses on identifying unique…

In particular, the problems come from a conflict between the Superego and the Id. Since the Superego contains ethical standards, while the Id contains the unhealthy urges and desires of a person. For Morrie, his superego is not looking at the desirable aspects of how his life is turning out to be. He focuses on the positives, such as being alive and seeing one of his favorite college students, Mitch Albom. With his ego, it does not exactly say that he is not handling it well on the inside…

Freud, in his primarily instructional work, focuses on the treatment of mental illnesses. However, being a doctor and motivated by reaching greater clinical understanding, Freud acts with a “clinical brutality” (10) that “blinds him to the profound philosophical and ethical significance of his discoveries” (10). On the other hand, Lear, in his “philosophical introduction” (20) of Freud, follows a less pragmatic and more philosophical path. Lear thus chases the elusive, age-old question, of what…

One of the theories is the introversion. Introversion is stated by Carl Jung as “to describe the directing if the libido, or psychic energy, toward things in the internal world” (Friedman, 2012). In other words, introverts are the ones who prefer solitary activities instead of partying like wild animals. Another theory is authoritarian personality in which shows the person how they are when it comes to being narrow minded, how defensive they get, and if they are prejudice. Authoritarian…

phases of sexuality within children all in the Oedipus complex. While researching dreams, Freud managed to categorize the mind into the id, ego, and superego which contained certain content or had a specific job to aid the other sections. The jobs of each were the superego represses or hides the images the id concocted, the ego is what people see on a daily basis and the id is all the desires primal impulses and unfulfilled wishes of the individual. These theories were a product of the time in…

helps the client to examine unresolved conflicts that arise from the past. The second dimension of the mind was composed of the id, superego, and ego. These parts are interrelated and impact the functioning of each other. The id is the primitive psychic force hidden in the unconscious. It represents the basic needs and drives on which other personality factors are built. The ego is…