Henry Turner

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Well known psychologist Sigmund Freud created a theory on how everyone has 3 parts of their personality they are the id, ego, and superego. The id operates in the principle pleasure and the ego in the realistic principle,while the superego operates in the more of the moral principle. The movie Regarding Henry can prove Freud’s theory on their being different sides of one's own personality while watching the main character Henry Turner be completely different after taking a bullet to the head. I personally would like to reason that Henry had one natural state before and a different one after the accident occurred. Henry’s more natural state was the id, then after his superego began to more so take over. In the movie Henry had quite a few id …show more content…

While returning home his wife and daughter hug the door man and before Henry was quite rude towards him, but surprisingly he was quick to hug the door man too. Another scene was when Henry’s daughter dropped her drink during breakfast and quickly looked at him almost waiting for Henry to yell at her, but in return he actually dropped his drink to to show her that mistakes happen and that everyone makes mistakes. As well as that scene when Henry and his wife were leaving their daughter at school and she seemed nervous Henry was quick to make up a lie about what he remembered from school when in reality he did not remember and even though lying is wrong he did it for all the right reasons. His daughter also wrote him a letter saying she was miserable and Henry called only wanting to cheer her up here we can see how much more caring and thoughtful he is now. Towards the end of the movie Henry decides he does not wanna be a lawyer anymore, he finds out he lied about his last case and hurt the Matthews family Henry goes to them and gives them important evidence so they can go back to court and get their money back. Henry’s natural state in my opinion differs throughout the movie. In the beginning before the accident Henry’s id overpowered his superego. Soon after the accident after recovering Henry’s superego was definitely more overpowering than is id. I felt as if there is more so of a balance between the both states. Though Henry was very much so more caring and thoughtful after getting

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