The struggles between Id and Superego in “Young Goodman Brown” According to Sigmund Freud, there are three psychological forces exerting influence over the human mind. These are consisted with the id, the super-ego and the ego. The id is the part of the unconscious mind where people’s basic needs about pleasure or irrational wishing and the super-ego is the part of the mind that forms moral standards. The ego makes balance of the id and the super-ego. In Hawthorne’s story ‘Young Goodman Brown’, the Brown’s journey through the forest is seen as the struggles between Brown’s id and super-ego.
At the beginning of the story, Brown’s first step in the forest considers as a victory to the id over the super-ego when Brown replied to his wife, Faith, who prevents the journey. Goodman Brown said “of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. ” …… “What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but three months married! ” When Brown responded nervously, his super-ego shows that his anxiety and guilty about unknowable journey to the forest.
However, he has already decided to leave his wife to go to the forest at night, because his id wants to fulfill his desire, beginning the journey, and persuaded his wife and also himself as his mention that this journey is only one night of all nights in the year. Brown’s id simply wins again a battle over super-ego when he leaves his wife, Faith, with his unquestionable faith in God. After leaving, Brown said “What a wretch am I’ … ‘But, no, no! ‘twould kill her to think it’ … ‘I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven’…… elt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. ” When he mentioned if his Faith knew the purpose of the journey, she would die by shock. It shows that he had already known the purpose of the journey is evil. So, his super-ego makes him feel guilty and mention himself as a wretch. However, regardless of the super-ego’s effort, his id drives him to go along his plan to meet with the devil and makes him justify himself as his resolving that he’ll follow Faith to Heaven after just this journey.
The Essay on Id, Ego and Super-Ego As it relates to “The Lord of the Flies”
Many people have different types of personalities. The characters from the story The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, have 3 different parts of personality of the brain. According to Freud these are the three parts Id, Ego and the Super-Ego. Freud’s personality theory really shows in The Lord of the Flies. In the story Jack would be described as the Id. According to Sigmund Freud, Id is the ...
Brown’s meeting with the old man who is the devil himself shows Brown’s confusion between his id and super-ego. Goodman exclaimed “Too far, too far! ” unconsciously resuming his walk. “My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. ” His super-ego makes him cry that he came too far from his Faith which means his wife and also his own faith and makes him get back home in which his Faith waiting him. Also he mention about that his forefathers wear not involved with the devil.
It shows that his super-ego tell him that his innateness is not evil, so makes him think to return. However, his id leads his walk to resume unconsciously. The id makes his body to move into the forest whatever he thought about. Brown also shows signs of his fighting between the super-ego and the id when he found out that his catechism teacher, Goody Cloyse, was a witch who is very involved with the devil. Brown stubbornly said “Friend, my mind is made up. Not another step will I budge on this errand’. …… ‘Is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith, and go after her. He decided to stop going along his plan, because he realized that his faults, getting in to the forest to meet the Devil, are the same as the old woman’s. So, his super-ego makes him to feel guilty about that and afraid if he could lose his faith. It leads him to want to stay away from the Devil. However, his id makes him want to see what drives all of them to follow the Devil. Because, he have already had close mind to the Devil unconsciously when he called the Devil “friend. ” It shows what he mentioned that he want to stop continuing his plan anymore was not from his actual true mind.
The Term Paper on Freud Super Ego
INTRODUCTION The suggestion is that psycho-analysis, and in particular its assertion that the neuroses are traceable to disturbances in sexual life, could only have originated in a town like Vienna - in an atmosphere of sensuality and immorality foreign to other cities - and that it is simply a reflection, a projection into theory, as it were, of these peculiar Viennese conditions. Now I am ...
