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.
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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
Nina is one of the main characters in this movie and Josie is her best friend. A scene where their friendship is characterized is one where Josie and Nina are riding in a cab. Josie gets upset
The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.
People show who they really are when there are no rules and chaos takes over. A man named Sigmund Freud creates the idea that all people are made up three main characteristics. The fist characteristic is the Id, wanting anything that will bring it immediate happiness. The Ego is the second characteristic, feeding the Id in socially acceptable ways to continue getting what it wants. The final characteristic is the Superego. The Superego is developed last and is the part of all humans that does things for the greater good. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Golding uses three characters to represent the idea of Id, Ego, and Superego. William Golding uses a character named Jack to represent the Id, doing anything to get what he wants. Golding uses Ralph to represent the Ego, trying to get what he wants in socially acceptable ways. Finally, a boy named Piggy is used to represent the Superego, doing things for the greater good of the group. The three characters represent the three main characteristics that every human has, Jack is the Id, Ralph is the Ego, and Piggy is the Superego.
Even though she writes this in the book due to peer pressure, she realizes that her actions are wrong and her superego makes her feel bad for behaving in this manner.
ego, and the id, and the constant struggle between the three psyches, which leads to a man becomingcrazy.
The main character in the film Black Swan, twenty-eight year old female Nina Sayers, displays signs of numerous disorders through her abnormal behavior. Nina’s life is consumed by her occupation: professional ballerina/dancer. Nina resides with her mother and rarely socializes with others. She has difficulty concentrating, is restless, irritable, suffers from muscle tension, and sleep disturbances from nightmares. Nina also feels very uncomfortable in social and intimate situations. She appears to be unable to successfully interact with those around her. The interaction that Nina has with her fellow dancers appears to be strained and superficial. Nina exhibits behavior that indicates she views all other dancers as competition instead of
Black Swan is a psycho thriller film that narrates the life of a ballerina called Nina Sayers (played by Natalie Portman). She is a young, ambitious dancer working for a prestigious NYC ballet company. According to the movie, she was around twenty-some year old when the story begins. Even though the main point of the movie is how bad Nina wanted the lead role for a theater production called Swan Lake, the dark drama around the movie is built by the psychological illness of its protagonist. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate/mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. In the movie, the role that Nina always wanted requires her to play both the black and white swans. Her innocent, almost child-like personality makes her a perfect hite swan; however, she was having trouble getting into the character of the white swan’s dark and seductive counterpart. This film brilliantly captures the brutal physical and emotional demands that ballerinas face in their short-lived career span.
In Joyce Carol Oates’ story entitled “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” the main character Anna fits Sigmund Freud’s definition of neurotic: “the ego and id become involved in an internal battle Freud calls neurosis” (Bressler 130). In addition to the ego and id, Anna’s superego also comes into play within her struggle. Throughout Oates’ story, the reader sees Anna’s internal conflict between the id, which dominates her personality, the ego, and the superego, which results in her neurosis. Oates makes it clear that the most dominant component of Anna’s psyche is the id, as she did not have the ability to resist her impulsive desires.
Louise Mallard is Kate Chopin short story's protagonist. As noted earlier, Louise has a heart trouble during the time when her friends are to break her husband's death news to her. She reacts to the news despite her heart condition with a flood of grief. She quickly retreats to her room which indicates repressiveness which she is accustomed to. She briefly feels guilt out of experiencing joy at the freedom which is brought by the death of her husband. She is later faced with some complex mix of love and resentment emotions which are elicited by the thoughts of Brently's tenderness with absolute control of her life from her husband. She ultimately welcomes her independence which she has newly found and then takes on the newly self-possessed individual's life. This essay will emphasize my argument on how the story shows some aspect of mental change in character, and I will identify where this starts in the character, what happens to cause the change, what the change is, and the consequences of this change for the character.
The daughter is bored with her mother's dreams and lets her pride take over. She often questions her self-worth, and she decides that she respects herself as nothing more than the normal girl that she is and always will be. Her mother is trying to mold her into something that she can never be, she believes, and only by her futile attempts to rebel can she hold on to the respect that she has for herself. The daughter is motivated only to fail so that she may continue on her quest to be normal. Her only motivation for success derives from her own vanity; although she cannot admit it to herself or her mother, she wants the audience to see her as that something that she is not, that same something that her mother hopes she could be.
Finally, Myers states that "the superego strives for perfection and judges our actions, producing positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt" (380). The superego acts as the mind's conscience. In the story, the narrator, Mama, clearly represents the superego portion of the mind structure because of her guilty conscience and her wishes to be perfect, both mentally and physically.
Assuming the Superego dominates her personality, she would strictly adhere to her parents’ wishes, as the superego is a result of the child’s internalization of her parents’ ethical values and teachings and
From the piece “The Eye” the narrator as the daughter feels like she exists separately from her mother’s expectations of her. The relationship between the mother and daughter in the story has significant tension because her mother believes it's her duty to tell her daughter about how she should feel, almost like controlling her. It's almost like the daughter feels trapped like the "Alice and Wonderland" movie quote she had made.
Starting from this point, it allows the reader’s to grab their attention in order to understand the historical facts of Japanese culture an German culture is created. Through the story, Ogai includes the historical facts regarding how dancing professional was one of the lower class through German literature reference. Though the story is narrated by the author with his personal perspective, it can be explained that when Toyotaro takes action in his relationship with Elise that the author is illustrating that Japanese is turning their minds into the bigger world. The story goes on as Toyotaro is in a difficult situation of deciding whether to choose his career or his feelings towards the German dancer. However, the story concludes as the Japanese student taking his career rather than his relationship, which led to the outcome of the German girl who was left pregnant becoming disheartened. Through this the author wanted to show the historical difference between the Western culture and Japan. Also in the story, psychological observation was used by Ogai to diminish the beauty of his idea (Ogai and Bowring 175). In order to detail the German Literature, Ogai uses both emotional and psychological observations. The author supposes that he himself was in a deep relationship with Elise, but however had to go after the education
Initially, Marina is isolated and detached from the world she once knew. She begins in a tone harsh and cold. “It would stay a cold and empty book, with no secrets.” Her tone is blunt as she describes herself as the “nut case, the psycho with the deformed face” and the “silent freak” suffering from “anorexia of speech”. The main aspect isolating Marina from growing and