Essays on Superego

Humanity and Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche The madman Where is God? he cried. I’ll tell you! You have killed him – you and I! We are all his murderers. But how did we do this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Where is it moving to now? Where are we moving to? Away from all suns? Are we continually falling? And backwards Nietszche The Gay Science 125 The first important observation concerning Nietzsche’s text is that ...

It is 1987 in New York City, and the audience is introduced to our main character, Patrick Bateman, who appears instantly as an intellectual, wealthy, young, playboy, who plays investment banker by day and serial killer by night. The dichotomy of this film is that the viewer is dealing with what seems to be an upper-class, possibly narcissistic, young man in the prime of his life with a beautiful fiancé and plenty of women willing to be with Patrick who do not acknowledge the engagement Patrick has with another woman. Then, on the other hand, you have a man ...

Personality refers to a set of distinctive behavioral styles, patterns, and traits that define the character of an individual. According to Cherry (2016) how an individual perceives the world, his attitudes, feelings, and thoughts form part of personality. Individuals with healthy personalities are able to cope up with stresses and have no problem in forming relationships with friends and family members. An extreme personality is a condition in which a person is characterized by strict and inflexible adherence to the systems, rules, orderliness and perfection. Failure to meet any of the fore mentioned standards can lead to a conflict ...

Theoretical approaches in psychology

Personality and situational behavior The personality trait approach begins by assuming that people differ in their typical patterns of feeling, thought, and action. Such patterns are known as personality traits. However, classifying people according to traits brings up a significant problem. Individuals are inconsistent. Some psychologists have postulated that people are so inconsistent in behavior from one circumstance to another that it is not reasonable to categorize them by personality traits. The controversy arising over this issue is the Person-situation debate. Opponents of the trait approach, also known as situationists make the following arguments. For one, traits have an ...

About the Movie “Leon: The Professional."

The movie “Leon: The Professional” was released in 1994. It was the French crime thriller which was later dubbed in the English language. The story revolves around two characters ‘Leon’ a hitman and a 12 years old young girl ‘Mathilda’ who was a depressed child. The characters depict situations where they had gone through different mental stages. This paper analyzes ‘Leon’ and ‘Mathilda’ human behaviors in the film and relates them to psychoanalytical theories developed by theorists, i.e., Jung and Freud.

Describing the behavior of Movie Characters: Leon & Mathilda

In this film, the character of Leon was played by Jean Reno, who was a brutal hitman. Natalie ...

Status is a common term in every society with structure since some members set the pace while the rest follow. Pride is therefore a familiar scenario as members of a certain social status seek recognition and respect from the rest of the population. Pride is a prevailing theme in the Antigone and tempest plays that feature characters who demonstrated pride in different degrees. Both plays feature historical societies where power wrangles defined every society. They also feature members of high social status and close to power. Antigone emerged at a time of national tension when the king needed to ...

Abstract

Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, has made lasting contributions in the field of psychology because of his theory on psychosexual and personality development. His unorthodox psychological techniques and theory were influenced by his forerunners and then, after his lifetime, left a lasting impact about how nurture explains human consciousness and behavior, especially, on mental illnesses. His three aspect of the mind: superego, ego, and id, are apt psychodynamic explanations about the workings of the mind and human behavior among his avid followers of psychoanalysts. Further, his stages of psychosexual development: pre-genital, oral, etc., not to mention Oedipus and ...

Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Adler Alfred were influential thinkers and contributors to the discipline of psychology (Fairbairn, 2013). Despite the distinctions in theories and perspectives, the three philosophers spent their lives searching a better understanding of humans’ psychological frailties. Furthermore, they tried to identify different approached of bettering them. Specifically, Freud suggested that the development of a child proceeds through stages associated with one’s physical development, and the way crises are resolved in different stages shapes one’s adult personality (Smith, 2013). He named the stages after erogenous zones that are capable of experiencing pleasure from the ...

The book titled The Color of Water by James McBride is an autobiographical affair which describes the life and happenings of the author’s mother, Ruth. The book is also a tribute to Ruth’s life and all that she goes through in the course of life. Ruth is presented as a strong woman with great ambition and strength. The book is not only representative of her journey and struggles; it is also her development as a person, a Christian, and a woman during the course of her life. She is the central figure in the novel and her ...

My Personal Theory of How Personality Is Developed

It is a common fact that personality is considered to be possessed by all people in this or that way. How people tend to think, behave and feel and what causes individuals to have these tendencies are the questions addressed by personality study and research. If developmental psychology and social psychology have merged as a subject matter in psychology, personality has never really found that unity. There has never been a fundamentally acceptable and precise definition as to what personality truly is. These aspects have not prevented personality from being one of the most argued subjects of psychological research and ...

When psychologists discuss the term personality, they are describing the aspects of a person that are lasting, continuous, and stable. If one is violent now, the probability is high he or she will be violent in future. Therefore, the personality discussions are focussed on constant traits (DiCaprio, 1983). In addition, personality can be described as that trait that transpires in a broad diversity of situations (DiCaprio, 1983). A violent individual will be inclined to be so in many diverse conditions. Ryckman defines Personality “as a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, motivations, ...

Psychodynamics approach to personality development was extensively forwarded by Sigmund Freud and is based on the premise that an individual’s unconscious part of the mind harbors unrecognized desires, interests, motivation or drive and memories which are only expressed in dreams or unconsciously (Waddel, 2009). The approach suggests that there exists conflicts between the conscious and the unconscious part of the mind and lack of solution to these conflicts leads to anxiety and maladjustment. The approach describes the development of personality as being controlled by three distinct forces that is the id, the ego and the superego (Comer, 2004). ...