The Tangent Mind In Donnie Darko

In result, she configures a poor self-image. A quote from the book Freud explains the id’s main motive, “Freud claimed that the id is based on something called the ‘pleasure principle’ which essentially means the id wants whatever feels good at that precise moment and disregards to any ramifications” (Kleinman, 24). Dolores portrays this when she says, “the following morning I stood at the kitchen table eating my breakfast – chocolate doughnuts and a mug of Pepsi” (Lamb 276). The id evidently overpowers the superego and ego within Dolores’ mind. After encountering a rape, Dolores transforms into a new person. Food becomes a way to console her leading her to obesity. The pleasure that food gives her directly responds to the id impulses. Dolores’ growing concern for only herself begins to build a barricade that forbids others needs and desires including her mom, her guidance counselor and her doctor. Therefore society’s opinions do not faze her and she constantly overlooks moral solutions. Dolores’ obesity deteriorates her self-esteem and so she starts constructing a negative judgment on the world. She constantly questions her worth and her reason for living to the point where she attempts to commit suicide. This causes her behaviour to become erratic as she loses any desire to attend high school classes and abandons all plans for college. Lois Tyson reinstates Freud’s idea of repression as he says,

So one thing he hope for was to believe in God, that God would help him to find an answer or perhaps, God does a magical thing for him to go back to his past life. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to go back to his past life and besides no one ever successfully recorded in the history to the attempt of going back to the past life. So I believed Donnie Darko was mentally distress and has a hallucination because in the movie it shows that his loved ones died and he left emotionally distress. Therefore, due to Donnie’s distress he felt he wanted to go back to his past life to correct what he did wrong. Also, almost at the end of the movie where sitting takes place it shown that they drove into the mountain and they see where the sky opened up. They could go back into the past life without encountered a problem. I think the setting of the movie Donnie Darko was just a work of evolutionary thought that creates a magical reference for the viewers. Also to puzzle’s viewers mind what was like the magical imagination are all

I have already mentioned the iceberg analogy. Freud believes that all behaviour is caused by the unconscious mind, which has a personality of three parts:

In Freud’s behavioral concepts, ID is the concept in which the part of the mind that exert our instinctual impulses and is the only element of the three that is present at birth. It’s what we pleasure and strive based on observation ("Id, ego, and super-ego"). In Golding’s novel, Jack best represents ID as he’s always doing as he pleases, not listening to what others have to say, and seeking pleasure in torturing Ralph and Piggy, as well as hunting. One example of this is when Jack leaves with a group of littluns to go hunting instead of tending to the fire. This shows that he does as he wishes without looking at the consequences or letting Ralph know of his doings. Another example would be when Jack, along with his band

Donnie Darko is an almost confusing film about time travel, schizophrenia and the manipulation of one 's fate. The film focuses on a teenage schoolboy named Donnie Darko. Donnie is not mentally healthy but he is very intelligent and has extremely high Iowa test scores. He also has a tendency to hallucinate and do destructive things when sleepwalking, such as flooding his school and burning down a house, due to this he is on strong medication and sees a therapist on a regular basis. After a near death experience, Donnie starts seeing an imaginary friend known as Frank. Frank is a seven foot tall, demonic looking rabbit, who tells him about how the world is going to end and of the possibilities of time travel. Frank saved Donnie from this

Firstly, Conrad’s Id has been nearly entirely repressed by his unconscious, leading him to lack the typical emotions that a teenager of his age should be feeling. The Id is one of the psychic zones proposed by Freud and it can be defined as humans’ unconscious source of instant gratification and animalistic emotions. It is generally kept in harmony with other psychic zones in order to prevent it from

Jack Meriweather is representative of the Id in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The Id is defined as “the part of the psyche associated with instinctual, repressed, or antisocial desires, usually sexual or aggressive. In its efforts to satisfy these desires, the id comes into conflict with the social and practical constraints enforced by the ego and superego.” ( Freud). Throughout his time on the Island, the choir boy and eventual ‘chief’ partakes in several activities that lead readers to believe he depicts the Id. The Id represents the unconscious part of the mind that is always within an individual. This

The id is “impulsive (and unconscious part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instinct…demands immediate satisfaction…not affected by reality, logic...on the contrary, it operates on the pleasure principle (Freud 1920) which is the idea that every…impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the consequences. (McLeod article Id, ego, superego pg. 1) the id is like a “new born…ensures basic needs are met …wants what it wants…” (Prezi presentation) an example of this personality is jack from Lord of the flies, “shut up, Fatty.” (pg. 21) “”Before I could kill it-but-next time!” Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly.” (pg. 33) “But I shall! Next time! I’ve got to get a barb on this spear! We wounded a pig and the spear fell out. If we could only make barbs-“ (pg. 51) This is a demonstration of jack wanting what he wants and not much caring for anyone else like Piggy who he called “Fatty” not caring for how that effected

I really like the concept of Freud comparing our human brain with an ice berg. The ice berg is really only 10% above the water and 90% below. So the largest part of the ice berg is actually beneath the water which we cannot see just like our unconsciousness. And it contain all the influence and motivations that motivates us in a way that we want to behave. How all the memories and experience stored in our unconsciousness regulate our personality and behavior. Things we are actually unaware of are the ones that influence us the most. Also the part that we all the bad memories and traumatic, depressing incidents of our lives hides themselves in the unconscious part of brain, so we don’t have to carry them

Questioning “why?” or “how?” people behave the way they do captivates me. I first remember questioning human behaviour whilst watching a TV show on Nazi Germany. I was struck by how most German citizens were highly supportive of Hitler’s views and they appeared to be unresponsive to the brutality towards the Jews. This all began to make sense to me when I started my A level Psychology course by gaining an insight of social influence, which described theories like obedience to authority, shown through Milgram’s shock experiments. This helped me realise why Germans conformed to legitimate authority. I wish to explore the psychological world further, especially abnormal psychology, at university.

Universal experiences and falls into feelings that we as a human race feel all the time. We experience feelings that don’t seem right. We experience not fitting in and wanting to escape from the world (Like Truman in the fill). Truman suggested that the life he was living was fake. Truman then tries to escape by leaving town, but people control him and attempt to bring him back.

However, this essay will demonstrate how someone gains another consciousness. With Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and works created by Dan Graham, connections between split personalities and the self will be explained as well as ties to the electronic image. In Dick’s novel, he invents items to create a dissociation in the main character, Bob/Fred. Coupled with the scene involving the medical officers/psychologists, these elements enhance the feeling that Bob/Fred is losing mental control. Graham’s relation to the ideas of split personalities and the self stem from his book, Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art. This book contains essays and images detailing the process of several artworks Graham created. With the descriptions accompany with some notes, Graham’s works convey messages that connect to notions about split personalities and the self. Even the video techniques and architectural decisions Graham uses in his work contribute to the ideas above. When examining A Scanner Darkly and Dan Graham’s essays, the meanings presented in these works are comprehended and will assist in exploring the correlation between split personalities and the

1. Describe the main character’s psychological disorder and the symptoms exhibited. The main character, Kevin Wendell Crumb sufferers from dissociative identity disorder (DID). He has 23 prominent personalities, each with all unique characteristics. The personalities that were portrayed on film had different names for the different personalities and each took control of the host body throughout the movie. Kevin showed the symptoms of; amnesia as he did not recall what occurred when the other personalities took over, mood swings which altered from the different alters who was taking over at the given time, and the presence of 2 or more identities with unique characteristics. Throughout the film, Kevin is seen as five different alters apart from his original form who are Barry, Patricia, Hedwig, the beast, and Dennis. Kevin is the host body and is oppressed until someone calls on his name multiple times. Barry is the dominant personality who sees the therapist Dr. Fletcher and is a fashion expert. Dennis is one of the characters portrayed on the film which has the obsessive compulsive disorder as he gets severely agitated when the abducted girls get their clothes dirty and demanding them to take the clothing off immediately and also has a desire to watch the young girls dance naked. Hedwig is the childlike personality who is a 9-year-old boy and can be easily manipulated. Patricia is seen to be an

Id is the feeling of self will that is charge of pleasure, and sexual feelings. The id, ego is a working machine that is searching for pleasure, and keeping away from the agony department. This is the piece of the brain that measures the irrational, and passionate state. The principle concerns of the id, is the inner self, and meeting its needs. "I need what I need".

Every time Everett goes to sleep, he dreams about himself as Kenneth. In Everett’s dreams of Kenneth, Kenneth is a representation of what Everett is scared he is becoming. Everett is worried he is going crazy and is going to become a murderer. This is the reason for Everett’s dreams about blood and dead bodies. Everett begins to worry so much about the version of himself in his dreams that it starts driving him crazy. Although Everett makes Kenneth out to be a real person, he is just an imaginary version of himself (Findley,