Comparsion Of The Id And Superego In Turner's Regarding Henry

His past can be examined and linked to Henry having antisocial personality disorder. During his killings, he got what actions were right from what were wrong mixed up. He had impulsive behavior, as well as a pattern of violation towards rights of others. His history of family problems and voices in his head can point towards another diagnosis, such as schizophrenia. During many interviews, he claimed to have heard voices that weren’t really there.

Henry was a normal boy and did all of the normal things young boys do: making noise, being busy and active, nosing around in the refrigerator, and asking questions - all part and parcel of being a normal child. But he was brought up to believe he wasn't a "model boy." His parents were constantly interrupted by him - his mother while she was reading and grading papers, and his father so much so that he spent most of his time in his office on campus, joining them only at mealtimes. His father wished to remain "blissfully unaware."

In Regarding Henry the main character Henry is a harsh lawyer in New York. Henry tends to use his id mostly in his occupation. He is very blunt and rude to his wife and daughter. It is almost as if he doesn't have a superego before his injury. After his injury, Henry is a totally changed man. He is super nice and caring for others and always wants to be with his daughter.

Henry is the type of character that we know in many of the books we read. Constantly he is thinking that he is

Henry’s internal struggle is his view of courage. Henry believes courage is something a person earns and achieves. He never experienced war, but has dreamt and, “He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess. But awake he had regarded battles as crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles.” (Crane 3) Henry wants to go to war to become a hero. He thinks that he has courage and could go to war and get all the glory. Henry runs from battle and has guilt, he comes up with excuses, he is a piece of the army and should save himself. When Henry comes back to the battlefield, he sees wounded soldiers and, “At times he regarded the

Henry starts out having an extreme amount of self doubt and wanting to have more courage. He has a traditional view of courage, believing that he wants others to view him as courageous and get praise from them. Henry does not want to gain courage for himself, but for others to think he is strong. He is very conflicted and struggles with his emotions, worrying that he does not want others to view him as weak and a coward, when he should be focusing on just doing his job and believing in himself.

There are many different ways that Henrys shows him using the id and superego through out the movie. He goes from using his super ego at the beginning but then completely changing after he gets shot in the brain to mainly using his Id.

When people hear the name Freud the first thing they think of is psychology. He believed that everyone has large unconscious. He says that people have 3 different parts of personality which are id, ego, and superego. In some people one sticks out more than the other. I believe that Henry showed his superego in the movie regarding Henry. His personality fell more towards superego. Henry was very selfish in the beginning of the movie than changed once he got shot. Henry did not appreciate everything he had. He got another chance to re-due his life and look at it with a whole new perspective.

I feel that before Henry had gotten shot he was a id and after he got shot he was the more playful id that he was a superego he did have a few of those moments but other than that he was more fun and less self centered and cared about his

Henry has aspergers (or high functioning autism). At first, I don’t believe I would be able to tell if Henry had autism given that he is very social, but I noticed in the film that he really struggles with eye contact and he often retreats into his own world. People with aspergers are considered “socially awkward” and even though Henry does struggle with socializing, but I believe that through growth and more socializing, he can learn to socialize more successfully.

In the movie, The Good Son, Henry displays jealousy in his actions and allows his younger brother to drown so he could have his rubberduck back. Again he is jealous of his younger sister’s relationship with their cousin so he spins his sister on the thin ice hoping she’ll drown and a second attempt to end her life at the hospital but cannot because his mom walks in. Finally he attempts to kill his cousin as well because Henry is jealous of Mark’s and his mom’s relationship (Ruben, 1993). In all of these situations he shows no remorse he just wants them gone so life can be all about him, these actions formed by jealousy indicates a personality disorder has developed.

Doctors would say that Henry has antisocial personality disorder because Henry shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the feelings of others. People with this disorder tend to manipulate those around them and treat them harshly. When it comes to their inappropriate behavior, they show no guilt or remorse. People with this disorder tend to break the law, lie, act violently, and tend to focus on their selves.

After he regains basic functions and he’s tossed into the outside world once again, he acts like a little kid - much different from his former self. He does silly things such as purchasing a puppy without the family’s consent, not taking in any factors of responsibility of owning a pet and instead focusing on the physical appeal of the puppy. After his daughter is sent off to school, Henry’s id overcomes him and he convinces his wife to allow the daughter to come home. Henry displays times where his Superego is dominant; however, this is only after instances where he’s thrown into adult situations such as going back to work. His actions when he’s alone - and even a few moments with adults - show that his Id is more prominent in his honest form.

Naturally, Henry Turner operates more on his pleasure principle. The id is the pleasure induced personality. Henry shows a tendency early in the film to react to his id. The first example of this occurrence is when he yells at his daughter for spilling juice onto his piano.

The ID in Henry’s brain is very expressed after he is shot in the head while trying to buy cigarettes. After he is shot he can’t really remember how to do anything or talk until taught, So he doesn’t have the brainpower to think, Which forces him to use his ID. One example is when he is able to leave, he buys a dog and when asked why, he says “I don’t know why”. This shows that he just got the puppy