5. What elements in the story “The Dragon” represent the Freudian Conscious mind? Make sure to provide quotes and references from the story to support your answer. (3 Marks) The story “The Dragon” represents the Freudian Conscious mind through setting, plot, and conflict. Sigmund Freud tells us that our conscience mind consists of feelings as well as becoming aware of someone else and this was portrayed when psychiatrist comes in contact with Pamela. The psychiatrist became so angry and couldn’t control himself and this shows us Freudian Conscious mind through the plot. Freudian Conscious mind is represented through conflict because when the psychiatrist hits Pamela, he was trying to tell himself to let go of the anger and be calm, which …show more content…
Besides, when the psychiatrist confronts her, he describes her as, “small, agitated, and dark, her face shaded by a disarray…Her eyes were very black, and she seemed to emit a musk. The psychiatrist hated her”. Besides, he was very angry and wanted to leap and attach the women. 7. In “The Dragon” Explain how the story's climax represents a conflict between the id, the ego, and the superego. Is this conflict resolved? Explain. (5 Marks) 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 …show more content…
Due to the women having roles like men, this does not follow the patriarchal ideology that most stories do. To be specific, even in this day in age, most households are in charge by men and women do not have equal say, and in this story, it shows that the roles are being reversed. Although, it does not show complete gender equality because the husband is unemployed and just because his wife makes more than him, he is being disrespected. However, they are married she tends to be friends with males that her own husband does not like, and just because her husband is not unemployed she is taking advantage. To conclude, the women is being fully appreciated since she has a job and she is in charge of the household, but the women is oppressing her husband just how men oppress women these days. 9. Based on the short story “A matter of balance”. As the actual reader, what do you think about the end of the story? How do your own experiences, beliefs, circumstances, values, and prior reading experiences shape the way you view this story? (4
The Superego works to suppress the urges of the id, and tries to make the ego behave morally, rather than realistically (Friedman). The fight with the dragon is the ultimate test of Beowulf’s maturity. Beowulf grew
...h peace at the end of the tale, many unnecessary struggles and burdens were cast upon them in spite of their rectitude.
The thought of Freud has a total focus on an individual’s mind and how this internal struggle effects how humans interact within society. Freud argues that every human has three functional parts of their personality that exist within the mind itself: the id, super-ego and the ego. Thurschwell describes these three layers as how they relate to each other. The id is the deepest level of the unconscious, which is dominated by the pleasure principle and has no concept of time except for the present, demanding instant gratification of sexual and aggressive (Eros and Thanatos) urges. The superego originates through identification with the individuals parents, functioning as an internal censor witch represses the dangerous urges of the id. The ego starts as part of the id but is more sensible as it has knowledge of the outside world. Unlike the id, the ego is dominated by the instinct to protect oneself. Although these three layers cannot be physically mapped out in the mind they do show how Freud constantly focused on the internal mind...
ID and superego can fight so ego is there to control the balance. If the superego takes over a person mind It can lead him to mental illness of feeling guilty at any action he will made because a human cannot superego’s satisfaction, If the Id take over a person will act in an inappropriate way. He believes that a mental healthy person has a strong ego but in the situation when the Id or superego become dominate mental illness person will start to result anxiety to signal ego that it is facing a situation that demand action therefor ego has to make defences mechanisms to avoid the anxiety of unconscious mind and maintain a positive
In all the psychology of the personality is difficult to understand, because trying to read what someone is thinking about you and your personality is a tough process. This was roughly and explanation into the view of Freud’s view of the id, ego, and superego and some of the psychoanalysis stages that come in the crazy world and studies of Sigmund Freud. Even though his views are not popular today some people still research them and think to themselves he might not be as weird as people told me he was.
An id is a pleasure that needs to be satisfied. In this case, Cholly’s id are to achieve manhood by having an intercourse. Since Cholly has no parents, no one teaches him what is good or bad. He has no idea about the moral of society or what is appropriate in the society. Therefore, he creates an idea of having an intercourse to achieve manhood. Ego has a job to satisfy both id and superego needs in a way that is socially acceptable. However, Cholly does not know what is appropriate since no one teaches him. This causes Cholly to become violent to everyone especially his family. This answers the questions: Why does he burn down the house and put the family outdoor, why does he fight and abuse his family, and why does he rape his own daughter. It is because id, ego, and superego are not balanced well. It causes Cholly to do what he wants without thinking about the social norms or
the id and through stages of development, develop the ego and superego to later become
Psychoanalysis can be used in many ways to critique literature and other texts. Any text can be psychoanalysed as a linguistic whole, or subdivided into smaller segments, such as the genre, the authorial psychoanalysis, or used to interpret the psyche of the characters. The “unwritten text” can be psychoanalysed as well, by using a more Structuralist approach and reading between the lines, while noticing the text’s patterns, dyads, and symbols. Psychoanalysis of themes in fairy tales can lead to surprising and often not child appropriate interpretations of children’s literature. Although, Freudian psychoanalysis is a helpful tool in obtaining an added perspective, it is dubitable, as there is no way of proving or disproving the unconscious. It should not be considered as the only mode for reading texts, but rather as one of many critical theory approaches, because psychoanalysis is an interpretation, a subjective plethora of meanings. However, psychoanalysis can help critics to broaden their viewpoint, and deduce grains of “Truth” from the analysis. Author, themes, and characters will be analyzed through the Freudian lens, to illustrate that texts can have many meanings, and can be viewed as a subconscious representation of societal values, repressed desires, and displacements.
In Sigmund Freud’s “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”, we encounter the id, ego and the superego. Freud explains that our id controls everything “that is inherited, that is present at birth, that is laid down in the constitution” (Freud 14). Our natural instincts are controlled by the id. The fight for survival is driven by the id in our psyche. The ego “preforms by taking control over the demands of the instincts” (Freud 15) it seeks a safe
ended up losing their humanity. In the book when there was a balance between these two
According to psychologist, Sigmund Freud, there are three main parts that make up a human’s personality: the id, ego, and superego. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the narrator of the story, Chief Bromden, represents each of these traits. In the beginning, Bromden only thinks of himself as any other crazy man, who no one pays attention to, but throughout the story Bromden develops mentally through all three stages of Freud’s personality analysis, maybe not in Freud’s preferred order, but he still represents them all.
The id and superego are on two opposite ends of the spectrum, and they are polar opposite to another, but they each live inside humans. The id is the primal instincts of one’s self it has; it is the
...y towards others. Ego which is developed from the id, is used to satisfy the id is a way that is safe and socially acceptable. The ego operated in both the conscious and unconscious mind. Finally the superego is developed during early childhood and is responsible for making sure that moral standards are followed. The superego can make a person feel a certain level of guilt if rules are not follwed (www.simplypschology.org).
Freud's often-controversial psychoanalysis was an attempt to explain the human psyche (mind) which is comprised of three components: the id, ego, and superego; and the conflict between these components shaped personality (Swanson, 1963, p. 14-16). He believed the ego is responsive to the id that developed at infancy. He also believed that defense mechanisms are unconsciously adopted to protect the ego from anxiety. He was convinced that anxiety was used to warn the ego of potential threats. He focused on internally held forces, including conflicts, biological dispositions, and sexual motivation for his theories (Macintyre, 1963, p. 98-99). He sought to address underlying issues in a person's life, and personal cha...
Important concepts in psychoanalysis are the id, superego, and ego. The id is an entirely unconscious and instinctual layer of an individual and operates on what is known as the “pleasure principle”, meaning it is constantly seeking immediate satisfaction. The ego is the component of the self that deals with reality and operates on the reality principle, which tries to satisfy the id’s needs in a much more socially and morally acceptable way. The superego is the last part to develop and this is what individuals learn from their surroundings, like society and the people ...