Interpreting Henry Turner's 'Superego In Regarding Henry'

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In “Regarding Henry” Henry Turner portrays a complex nuanced id and superego. Henry has positive and negative qualities on each side. What happened to Henry was that he was shot in a store when he was trying to buy some cigarettes. He later became disabled by forgetting everything and everyone he knew or loved. Henry wasn't able to walk or move but finally after after some time of physical therapy he was able to walk and talk. Henry Turner portrays some id in the movie. An Id is the reservoir of instinctual and biological urges and it operates on the “reality principle.” In the movie, Henry paid no attention to the daughter before he went to a dinner party for work but then he came back and felt bad and woke her up to tell her that he was sorry for what he had said earlier, but he turned it around and made the …show more content…

A superego is a source that inhabits the socially undesirable impulses of the id. It operates on the “moral principle.” An example from the movie is when, after Henry got shot he was reading through the file from the Matthews case which stated that the people did not tell the doctors the the patient was diabetic when they really did. He saw that he lied and flt bad and went back to the Matthews’ house and gave then the file on that case. This shows superego because it shows honesty in Henry. Another example is when he forgive the wife for cheating on him with his coworker, Bruce. This happened before Henry was shot so they weren't as close and wasn't a good family. Henry also cheated on his wife with a partner at work so that's why he went back to forgive his wife. Henry tried to barry a memory or a repression. Also, after Henry got shot was was more public about Sarah and his love. They went to walk around the city and Henry held Sarah’s hand and then made her stand on a park bench and kissed her in front of all the people in the city. Those are a lot of examples of superegos that had happened in the

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