In the movie, Regarding Henry, we follow the life of a man named Henry. Henry had just about everything. He had a wife, kids, and an amazing job. He was a very successful lawyer who had won many cases in the past. He was very rich and had an amazing social standing. Yet one day, all of that changed. After one almost fatal incident, Henry’s outlook on life completely changes. We can see the battle between the id and the superego as he figures out who he is and his new life. At the beginning of the movie, we see Henry uses his superego, yet sometimes his id. For example, we learn later in the movie that the case he was working on, he lied in to guarantee himself a win. This shows him using his id, since he purposefully lied so he could win the …show more content…
case and get the money. Yet, later, we see him using his superego and apologizing to his daughter after yelling at her about messing around with his piano. These examples show him using both ends of the spectrum. He also seemed to use a lot of critical thinking. Being a lawyer, you must have brains and wit to be able to get by. You have to make hard decisions in life to help your clients win. This would involve more the superego side, as having to make logical and ethical decisions instead of the ones you just feel is right, also known as, the id. After we learn more about his life, a certain incident occurs.
Henry goes out to buy cigarettes, but ends up getting shot in the head. This tragic incident leaves him with severe memory loss, not remembering most of his life at all. He had to learn to walk, speak, and basically live again. Yet, after this accident, everything in his life completely changes. He does not think the same as he did before. At first, his id had complete control over him. He acted according to what he wanted in life. For example, when Henry had to leave the hospital, he yelled at Bradley, his physical therapist, that he didn’t want to go because he didn’t remember them. This was an amazing example of the id and not the superego. He was not using the superego here, because it would be the right and ethical thing to do to go home. Soon after he comes home, he still uses his id quite a lot, but we see his superego start coming out. He uses critical thinking in a lot of his decisions. For example, towards the end of the movie, we see Henry decide to leave his old life behind and start a new one. Even though one might think this was an id decision, as it was something he wanted, this would most likely be a superego decision. We can see him thinking very hard throughout the end of the movie, until finally deciding it was the right thing to go back to his wife and daughter, and create a new life
together. In conclusion, this movie was very psychological in the fact of watching and analyzing Henry’s decisions and choices. We see him use both his id and superego throughout this story. This was a great movie that I would recommend to others who are interested in psychology.
Henry for himself is when he is alone. He seems to stop acting and let
...s inner self. What is seen as a relationship amongst these two young men is now torn apart by the transformation of Henry caused from his witnesses during warfare.
The superego is usually the voice of law, in this case this is the law of God, of reason, and represented by civilization. Id is usually anarchy and nature. Ozymandias broke the law of God. Look at what that pride has brought him too. He became a man that was destroyed by his own wild ambitions. Even though h...
In the play Henry V written by Shakespeare. Henry was presented as the ideal Christian king. His mercy, wisdom, and other characteristics demonstrated the behavior of a Christian king. Yet at the same time he is shown to be man like any other. The way he behaves in his past is just like an ordinary man. But in Henry’s own mind he describes himself as “the mirror of all Christian kings” and also a “true lover of the holly church.
Henry suffers from retrograde amnesia due to internal bleeding in the part of the brain that controls memory. This causes him to forget completely everything he ever learned. His entire life is forgotten and he has to basically relearn who he was, only to find he didn’t like who he was and that he didn’t want to be that person. He starts to pay more attention to his daughter and his wife and starts to spend more time with them.
In the story of dragon, the story represents a conflict between the id, the ego, and the superego. This is because the story talks about the early age of his life when he had his heartbroken and this resulted in him changing his entire life plans, and aspires to become a psychiatrist. The struggles between the three functional features are present, although they are not resolved. As the psychiatrist attends the party, he sees Pamela and he attacks her without thinking it through. This is because with his past experiences of his own wife leaving him, he let his id take over him causing him to act irrationally, in other words not ego. Therefore, the conflict is not resolved due to his actions at the
At the beginning, Henry Fleming has an undeveloped identity because his inexperience limits his understanding of heroism, manhood, and courage. For example, on the way to war, “The regiment was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth [Henry] had believed that he must be a hero” (Crane 13). Since he has yet to fight in war, Henry believes a hero is defined by what others think of him and not what he actually does. The most heroic thing he has done so far is enlist, but even that was with ulterior motives; he assumes fighting in the war will bring him glory, yet another object of others’ opinions. At this point, what he thinks of himself is much less important than how the public perceives him. As a result of not understanding
Henry is determined throughout the story. One example of his determination is when he first enlists to join the Union army. He puts his mind to it, enlisting against his mother's wishes. Another example is when he is hit in the head by the stock of a gun from another soldier, who is trying to get away from Henry. Although he is hurt very badly, he is determined to make it out of the way of harm and back to his regiment's encampment. Later in the story,...
middle of paper ... ... In conclusion, the character of Henry dominates the play throughout. overshadowing the other characters in the story. He is a religious man, reinforced.
This is an odd little book, but a very important one nonetheless. The story it tells is something like an extended parablethe style is plain, the characters are nearly stick figures, the story itself is contrived. And yet ... and yet, the story is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking because the historical trend it describes is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking.
ID, ego and superego. He said you were born with ID which was in your
Henry’s character is introduced in the movie when his cousin Mark, who is just about the same age as him, suddenly comes to stay with their family because his father had to go away on business. Mark’s mother recently passed away right in front of his eyes and he was still dealing with the repercussions of it all. Dealing with feelings of loneliness, Mark immediately developed a close bond with Henry. He found Henry to be adventurous and nice but was not aware of who Henry really was and what he was experiencing. At first, Henry seemed like a decent young boy who enjoyed experimenting with new things. On ...
It is driven by the reality principle by attempting to rationalize the situation and acts accordingly in order to achieve satisfaction while doing it in a socially acceptable manner. The ego is ‘like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse’ (Freud, 1923). For example, while out at a restaurant Tom is thirsty but knew that the waiter would return to refill the water glass, so he waited until then to get a drink, even though he just really wanted to drink from Mrs. Smith’s glass. The super ego sits, omnipresent, at the top and acts as a moral compass for both the id and ego. McLeod (2008) states that the superego attempts to manage the urges of the id and convince the ego to think and act towards moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones and to strive for perfection. There are two aspects of the superego: the ego ideal and the conscience. The ego ideal is the general idea one has of how to behave to be classified as an upstanding member of society; it includes norms, rules and standards for good
This is interesting because at the beginning of the novel, Henry also fits the ‘spy’ narrative quite closely as a character. This suggests that there is a correlation between Henry’s characterization and the direction of the
The id, ego, and superego play a vital role in a person's development of their personality. If thy work together in harmony a person will grow up to be a be a healthy mentally person.