The Ego is perhaps closest to the conscious human mind. In a Four-Temperament Ensemble, is usually Phlegmatic or Supine, as far as altruistic "spirit of the law" or Melancholic, in the more dogmatic cases. The Superego is clearly the Shoulder Angel. These characters are often portrayed as rather short-sighted and narrow-minded, since you can't please everyone. Apart from Freud, the common stereotype that women have more abstract and spiritual tendencies (the other side of emotional) and men the more practical ends-justify-means can easily challenge Freud's interpretation.Ī character acting entirely on Superego would be one whose actions are based entirely on social norms and expectations. As women do not identify with the father, their superego is supposedly less developed and they are, at the core, more emotional. To him, the superego was a product of a boy's elimination of his Oedipus complex and acceptance of his father as an authority. The rationale behind all this is some of Freud's more sexist theories. On a more intensive level, Freud theorized that the superego was an internal symbol of the strong father figure: one who would discipline the person for misbehavior and instruct the person on cultural demands and regulations in their youth. It criticizes and guilts the Id's desires and controls the person's morality and sense of right and wrong. While the Id desires simple self-gratification, the Superego desires for the person's behavior to be based on what's socially acceptable. In contrast to the Id, the superego acts essentially as the person's critical and moralizing conscience. In a Four-Temperament Ensemble, the humanistic ones are usually Sanguine the "death" instinct is usually a Choleric thing. In other words, the Id is the Shoulder Devil. A sentient character whose actions are dominated by his/her Id is often portrayed as The Sociopath. Non-sentient life can be considered to be acting on pure Id, as they have no ability to handle the higher thinking that the superego and ego control. The death instinct, on the other hand, is expressed through aggression, with the rationale being that it mirrored the life instinct by being a desire to send organic life back into death. More generally, it encompasses a desire to bring organic life into fruition and fulfillment the fulfillment part has it encompass anything pleasurable. The life instinct is the desire to create - and since this is an article on Freud, you should already know what kind of "creation" it's referring to. The Id has no judgments of anything there is no good or evil and no sense of morality at all.įreud described the Id has having two basic instincts that are opposite but equally present: the life instinct and the death instinct.
The Id is, by definition, both completely disorganized and completely unconscious: no one is capable of intentionally acting on pure Id. Simply put, the Id comprises the basic, instinctual drives, acting according to the "pleasure principle." With Id alone, humankind is essentially no better than any other animal. Strachey decided to go with Gratuitous Latin instead. To German-speakers, these ideas were more or less self-explanatory by the names but his English translator James Strachey found it difficult to find English terms that had the same weight. In general, the Id handled instinctual behavior, the Superego desired for critical and moral behavior that fit within social norms and the Ego played the realistic and rational role.Īlso important to note is that the terms "Id", "Superego" and "Ego" were not used by Freud: being Austrian, he used the terms "das Es", "das Über-Ich" and "das Ich", or "the It", "the Over-I" and "the I", respectively. In other words, a Freudian Trio.īut what exactly are the Id, Superego and Ego? Freud theorized that the human psyche was made of three constructs whose interactions determine the behavior of the person in question. Since the three are basically three competing elements of the human psyche, it's easy to extrapolate this into a group of three characters, with each character representing each element.
One of the ideas that's propogated the most, even if people don't realize it, is the idea of the Id, Superego, and Ego. Since All Psychology Is Freudian according to Hollywood Psych, the ideas of Sigmund Freud, while largely discredited today, are brought up and explored in popular media.
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