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Henry Reflection

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In the movie, Regarding Henry, character Henry Turner begins as a man controlled by the negative effects of his id. In the midst of a situation controlled by his id, he gets shot, loses his memory, and suffers a brain injury forcing him to learn most things over again. The lifestyle of Mr. Turner after the accident creates a drastic change in how he operates and obviously what he holds as more or less significant. After his release from the rehabilitation, one can argue he finally learns how to use his id and super in ways that are in both negative and positive. In comparison to who he becomes after the accident, Henry Turner has lived his life completely in lies and out of greed. He cannot even apologize to his daughter without bringing up his success with a case, when the conflict arose with something that he just did not like. In that moment, he did use his superego in apologizing but somehow warps it into a negative moment by letting his id come out in a way of self-centeredness. Likewise, Mr. Turner will do anything for the two things he wants the most, money and a good name. His id takes over even while in court, helping him to lie with ease in order to win a case when he most definitely should have lost. Furthermore, toward the end of the movie those watching find that Mr. Turner could not control his want for other women and has an affair on his wife which he represses after the accident so that he would not have to deal with the guilt pertaining to the subject.

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