![]() ![]() 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). The personality of the newborn child is all id and only later does it develop an ego and super-ego. ![]() The id is the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to basic urges, needs, and desires. In this situation, his superego makes him hesitant to kill it. The id is the primitive and instinctive component of personality. The ego is rational and oriented toward problem solving. 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. The ego is the mediator between our sometimes unrealistic id and our over-idealistic superego. In both the novel and the movie, Pi tells us that Richard Parker is the reason why he had a chance to survive. Freud believed that the human soul is shaped like an iceberg, with the tip being the ego and superego, and the bottom of it being the id. Richard Parker is Pi’s survival instincts (id), which we are all born with the moment we are born. Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality According to Sigmund Freud, there are three fundamental parts of the human psyche the id, ego, and superego. 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). Ego develops after the Id, usually during the first three years of a. Some researchers believe that Richard Parker, the tiger, is actually a symbolism of Pi’s id. To sum it all up, ego serves three distinct masters the Id, the superego, and reality. This also shows what imbalance of personalities can do to us. The ego also develops a set of values and beliefs based on the standards of morality internalized from the superego. The ego mediates between the id and superego, and uses defense mechanisms to protect the individual from anxiety-producing impulses from the id. There was no superego or ego that could have stopped it from killing the zebra. The interaction between the ego, id, and superego is an important part of Freud’s theory, as it explains how the three parts of the psyche work together to produce human behavior. How the ego achieves balance and resolves the conflict between the id and the superego defines how we behave in any given situation and cope with reality. The dynamic interaction of these three structures produces tension and conflict. The hyena on the lifeboat is an example of id, because of how it killed the zebra due to hunger. The ego mediates and balances the opposing motives and drives of the id and superego with reality. ![]()
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