Ron- The superego is part of the conscious mind. Michael- the superego is your conscience, it judges the ego on its choices and reprimands or praises it :”The super-ego applies the strictest moral standard to the helpless ego which is at its mercy in general it represents the claims of morality, and we realize all at once that our moral sense of guilt is the expression of the tension between the ego and the super-ego.” “The ego controls the approaches to motility under the id’s orders but between a need and an action it has interposed a postponement in the form of the activity of thought,1 during which it makes use of the mnemic residues of experience.” Lysa- The Ego is letting you know that your desires may not always be fulfilled. For example, “It is the sense-organ of the entire apparatus moreover it is receptive not only to excitations from outside but also to those arising from the interior of the mind (Freud n.p.g).Ĭindy- The ego is a balance between the id and superego and it is a portion of the id that has learned and adapted to the external world: “…it has taken on the task of representing the external world to the id…” Ron- The Ego is what balances the Id and Superego. “Its three tyrannical masters are the external world, the super-ego and the id.” The ego is best analyzed in relation to these “tyrannical masters” Leon- “The relation to the external world has become the decisive factor for the ego.” Its three tyrannical masters are the external world, the super-ego and the id” No wonder that the ego so often fails in its task. These claims are always divergent and often seem incompatible. It chooses an appropriate way and time to perform what the Id wants and is then judged by the superego: “The poor ego has things even worse: it serves three severe masters and does what it can to bring their claims and demands into harmony with one another. Michael- the ego is the mediator between the Id, superego, and the real world. It’s the instincts and desires that are in the unconscious mind which are not allowed to be emotionally displayed, they don’t act upon those urges. For example, “It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organization, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle” (Freud n.p.g). Ron- The id is found totally in the unconscious. Leon- The recesses of the mind “Wishful impulses which have never passed beyond the id,īut impressions, too, which have been sunk into the id by repression, are virtually immortal after the passage of decades they behave as though they had just occurred.” We picture it as being open at its end to somatic influences, and as taking up into itself instinctual needs which find their psychical expression in it.” “We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations. Collection of urges waiting for it to be fulfilled. Lysa- The Id is in the unconscious mind when a baby is born. Michael- id is instinctual desires: “It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organization produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs”Ĭindy- The id is comprised of pure instinct and urges: “The id of course knows no judgements of value: no good and evil, no morality.” However, it’s interesting to see how Pi’s id (survival instincts) is powerful enough to take charge over the superego and ends up killing the fish for the two of them.Breakout room 1- Ron, Cindy, Michael, Leon, Lysa He subconsciously knows that he should not be killing a live species due to religion, and also knows that he should not be eating fish (he is a vegetarian because of his religion). In this situation, his superego makes him hesitant to kill it. This could be the hidden meaning for Pi’s natural instincts.Īnother example is when Pi struggled with killing the fish for Richard Parker and himself to eat. In both the novel and the movie, Pi tells us that Richard Parker is the reason why he had a chance to survive. Richard Parker is Pi’s survival instincts (id), which we are all born with the moment we are born. Richard Parker is the one who kills the hyena, which is parallel to Pi killing the cook (another version of the story he tells to Japanese reports at the very end of the movie). Some researchers believe that Richard Parker, the tiger, is actually a symbolism of Pi’s id. This also shows what imbalance of personalities can do to us. There was no superego or ego that could have stopped it from killing the zebra. The hyena on the lifeboat is an example of id, because of how it killed the zebra due to hunger.
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