However, it’s interesting to see how Pi’s id (survival instincts) is powerful enough to take charge over the superego and ends up killing the fish for the two of them. He subconsciously knows that he should not be killing a live species due to religion, and also knows that he should not be eating fish (he is a vegetarian because of his religion). In this situation, his superego makes him hesitant to kill it. This could be the hidden meaning for Pi’s natural instincts.Īnother example is when Pi struggled with killing the fish for Richard Parker and himself to eat. In both the novel and the movie, Pi tells us that Richard Parker is the reason why he had a chance to survive. The super-ego is there shown to be derived from a transformation of the childs earliest object-cathexes into identifications: it takes the place of the Oedipus. Richard Parker is Pi’s survival instincts (id), which we are all born with the moment we are born. Richard Parker is the one who kills the hyena, which is parallel to Pi killing the cook (another version of the story he tells to Japanese reports at the very end of the movie).
Some researchers believe that Richard Parker, the tiger, is actually a symbolism of Pi’s id. This also shows what imbalance of personalities can do to us. There was no superego or ego that could have stopped it from killing the zebra. Only partially conscious, the superego serves as a censor on the ego functions and comprises the individual's ideals derived from the values of his family and society, being the source of guilty feelings and fear of punishment.The hyena on the lifeboat is an example of id, because of how it killed the zebra due to hunger. When they operate smoothly, Freud believed a person could enjoy a peaceful life and a balanced. Instead, they regularly interact with and override each other. While they are each responsible for a different part of our behaviors, they are not separate entities. Inappropriate desires are not satisfied but repressed. Freuds creation of the id, ego, and superego was about explaining human behavior. Ruled by the reality principle, the ego takes care of the id urges as soon as the adequate circumstance is found. The superego and the ego share different aspects of the same objects they develop. It acquires both protective and threatening qualities. The ego operates mainly in conscious and preconscious levels, although it also contains unconscious elements because both the ego and the superego evolved from the id. In Kleinian thinking the superego is composed of a split-off part of the ego, into which is projected death instinct fused with life instinct, and good and bad aspects of the primary, and also later, objects. Ruled by the pleasure principle, the id demands immediate satisfaction of its urges, regardless of undesirable effects. The id is the unconscious reservoir of drives, which are constantly active. There is a constant movement of memories and impulses from one level to another. topĪccording to Freud's structural theory of the mind, the id, the ego and the superego function in different levels of consciousness. Lately, many biopsychological explorations have shed new light on the validity of psychoanalytic ideas about the unconscious.
Dreams and slips of the tongue, for instance, are concealed examples of unconscious content not confronted directly. Unconscious motivations are available to consciousness in a disguised form. Central to this theory is the postulated existence of the unconscious as:Ī) a repository for traumatic repressed memories ī) the source of anxiety-provoking drives, which are socially or ethically unacceptable to the individual. The unconscious refers to data retained but not easily available to the individual's conscious awareness or scrutiny.įreud developed the psychoanalytic theory based on his clinical experience. The pre-conscious is related to data that can readily be brought to consciousness The conscious deals with awareness of present perceptions, feelings, thoughts, memories, fantasies at any particular moment In his earlier topographical division of the psyche, Freud distinguished among different levels of consciousness: The Freud Page/Id, Ego, Superego, Conscious, Unconscious Main Menu
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