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Nina Sayers 'Internal Conflict In The Movie Black Swan'

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Internal Conflict
As I become more knowledgeable about the Id, ego, and superego, I found the three readings that were assigned very interesting, but the one that drew my attention was Black Swan. This movie shows the triple personality of a human being found in once discorded place. The film tells about a ballerina in New York, Nina Sayers, who wants to be the prima ballerina, main female dancer, in the Black Swan play. Her way through it while losing her state of mind, hostile by a possessive mother, and increase envy toward Lily, another ballerina of the company. Clearly evidence of trinary balance of the human nature that supports of the wellbeing of the society, the novel explores the counter part of human nature as is: Superego, ego, and Id. …show more content…

Nina’s mother is a suppressive woman, keeping her daughter constrain in her superego psych. Saying what to do and act, Erica, Nina’s mother, made her daughter live into extreme limits. As the reading says, “she lives with her obsessive…mother..who excert controls over her”. Nina’s superego pleases her mother lacking her own identity.
Second, the ego which controls the galloping and rampant desires. Nina craved the main character in the ballet at any price, and she saw Lily as a rival. At the beginning, she is against her, but the time elapsed and the two became sort of friends. As the reading says, “..young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship”. There is no competition any longer, but a bizarre closeness. Third, the Id which is the instant gratification psych. Dr. Freud referred the Id as a “horse” that needs control. The black swan is the Id, the one who Nina became at the end of the movie. With the uncontrollable and dark desires, Nina was leading to the insane innermost that every person has. The one which once is unleashed can kill spiritual and physically any human

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