While reading Sun, Moon, and Talia it is clear that both Talia and the queen are influenced by their inner drives to make important decisions in their lives. Gaimbattista Basile conveys how inner drives can be the rise or fall of existence based on id, ego and superego. Talia and the queen as well as all the other characters in the story show why all three drives exists for different purposes. According to Freud our internal drives are what controls our moods and how we act in certain situations. In Reuben Fines book Freud he states: Freud described the personality as consisting of three areas-the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the source of all drives, the reservoir of instincts. The word itself was taken from the German …show more content…
Talia is raped in her slumber, but wakes up to two children and once she meets the father she is happy. Basile writes, “He was overjoyed, and he told Talia who he was, and how he had seen her and what had taken place. When she heard this, their friendship was knitted with tighter bonds…” (2) Talia’s superego is apparent here due to her want and need to be a mother, bypassing that a man took advantage of her while she was sleeping. The queen is brought into the story once the king goes home, she can tell that he has other matter on his mind and he would not call out for Talia and his children in his sleep. The queen would get the secretary to go and find out who the king was no in love with, and told him if he passed this task he would receive riches beyond his belief but if he failed he would be killed. The queen shows her id her by threatening the secretary to expose the kings secrets. In the next scene the queen tricks Talia into sending the children to their father, who knew nothing about this. The queen driven by her id tells the cook to cook the children and have them fed to him secretly. The cook driven by his superego knows he could never kill the two beautiful children, hides then and feeds the king lamb. The king described the meal as “by the life of Lanfusa, how tasteful this is,” and the queen would reply by saying “Eat, eat, you are eating your own.” (Balise 2) The king would
After some suspicious exchanges between the duke and messengers, they have to move to a new castle. The queen discovers Nicola’s illiteracy and gets a governess named Madam Jacqueline, a cruel woman who loves corporal punishment. Queen finds out of here violent ways of teaching and demands here a new teacher. Nicola learns to read and can communicate with more people. A rival army begins riots within the people and they must again move.
This time the subject that was being accused was his lover. The young boy had two doors to choose from, behind one awaited a young beautiful maiden that he would be set to marry if that were to be his fate, however behind another door was a hungry tiger that he would suffer at the claws of if he were to pick it. The king had arranged this entire sick and twisted affair, a quote from the short story states that “It mattered not that he already possesses a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon another object of his own selection; the king allowed no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of retribution and reward”. The princess knew this which in turn unsettled her for she loved him with an ardor that had enough barbarism to make to extremely warm and strong. The fact that her personality was depicted as being semi barbaric and that her love for him had barbarism in it is a hint that the princess would subject her lover to death than see him with another woman.
S.C Gwynne writes about the history of the Comanche tribe during the United States’ attack on the natives of North America in his book, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. In this book he talks about the rise and fall of Comanches under Quanah Parker who was the last free tribal leader of the Comanches, and also goes in depth about the tribe itself and it’s growth over time. He details how the Comanches war with the white man essentially began and ended with Quanah Parker.
The psychodynamic theory argues that the personality contains three major components. The components are id, ego, and superego. ID is the unrestrained, pleasure-seeking component that a person is born with. Ego develops by living in the world and superego develops by interactions with others. When all three components are well balanced the individual lives a normal life. Now, when they are unbalanced and one
needs of identity. The id is driven by the delight standard, which takes a stab at quick satisfaction of all,
theory of the Superego, the Ego and the Id. The Id is the centre of
The id is Freud’s definition of the irrational, animalistic part of the mind ("Structure of Mind: Freud's Id, Ego, & Superego"). Jack, the lead choir boy from the group, is a cruel, selfish, and primitive boy-- the perfect example of an id personality. In Lord of the Flies, this boy executes multiple actions which prove that he truly has an id personality. For example, Jack stops his
The psychodynamic perspective was originally theorised by Sigmund Freud. Psychodynamic theory suggests that much of human motivation, action, and thought, are governed by unconscious mental processes. These processes can conflict with one another causing compromises between the contending motives. Freud argued that these mental processes and motivations are determined by two biological drives: aggression and sex. These drives, Freud suggests, are internal states of tension that augment in pressure until satisfied (Burton et al., 2009).
Being unable to control his frustration with the guilt, Cory screams at his mother for no reason. He says, “Why do you give more attention to your boyfriend rather than your own child? […] I’m tired of feeling guilty even though it wasn’t even my fault,” (152). This connects to my thesis because even though a day passes while Cory sleeps, when he
In the poem ‘Moon’, Kathleen Jamie explores themes of abandonment, loneliness and disconnection. She does this by utilizing a clearly dysfunctional relationship between a mother and child. The child replaces the either mentally or physically absent mother with the presence of the moon. To explore the emotional distance between child and mother, the author uses dark and light imagery to empathize the child’s loneliness and to evoke the scene of a parent visiting they child late at night. Personification of inanimate objects illustrates the detrimental effects the unavailable mother has on the child’s mental wellbeing. The poem ends with dialogue from the protagonist, the child, pointing out that the moon is not her mother, as if to be
Freud believed that the human personality consisted of three interworking parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id, the largest part of the mind, is related to desires and impulses and is the main source of basic biological needs. The ego is related to reasoning and is the conscious, rational part of the personality; it monitors behavior in order to satisfy basic desires without suffering negative consequences (Boundless.com). The superego, or conscience, develops through interactions with others (mainly parents) who want the child to conform to the norms of society (Boundless.com). Freud believed that our adult lives were shaped by childhood experiences, meaning that if children did not receive the proper nurturing, that the child would be stuck in that stage or behaviors
The king at last remembered Talia and went back to her house to see if the lovely lady was perhaps still asleep. Driven by lust, he told his wife he was going hunting. Once he entered Talia’s house, he saw the girl and the two toddlers and told her who he was and what had happened. As they continued speaking to one another, their friendship and love grew. When it was time for him to leave again, he promised her he would come back soon and knew he was madly in love. He dreamt of the girl and of his children often and called their names in his sleep. The queen was enraged by hearing him call out these strange names and became suspicious. She told the king’s secretary to look for Sun. Moon and Talia. If he would betray his king, he would get all the money he wanted, but if he didn’t, she would have him killed. The poor man decided that his life was more valuable than his loyalty and so he told the queen what the king had told him in confidence.
Gaiman opens with a short background on how the Queen attained her royal status. Through her narration, we learn that she had been just an average village girl when the King swept through her town and took his “king’s right”. Quite early on Gaiman begins this analysis on the inequality that exists between men and women. The Queen never questions the King when he takes what he believes to be his, in this case the Queen’s innocence. Gaiman establishes the Queen as a relatable character because of her average beginnings. Because of this it will be much easier for the reader to sympathize for her alter in the story. The reader is naturally more inclined to
Explain how the ego, id and superego interact. Use an example from your own experience.
Freud – the object is the creation of drives; object relations are the function of drives