Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Action Figure

A few days before Christmas, my friend and I went to the mall to do Christmas shopping. Right before we left we went into a toy store to look for a bored game and we ended up finding a Freud action figure. This was a comical moment and then we decided to buy the action figure for our English teacher. Sigmund Freud was a very out of the box person and he had many interesting theories. He first said we have an ego, super-ego, and an id. The id is like the devil on our shoulder and he tries to satisfy all desires that give us pleasure or happiness. The id takes place in our unconscious mind. He said we also have an ego and a super-ego. Our super-ego knows the difference between right and wrong. The super-ego tries to make the right decisions and it occurs in our precocious mind. Freud said that our ego also occurs in the precocious and our ego balances out our id and super-ego. Over Christmas there was attempted terrorist attack on a U.S. bound airplane by a Nigerian male. This man according to Freud has an id, ego, and super-ego. Why would someone want to blow up a plane? Does this have to anything with the id, ego, or super-ego? If I were following Freud's theory then I would say that the guy's ego gave into his id and this made him commit such a hateful crime. I really don't believe in Freud's theory. I do think that we are all created evil and people sadly commit these hateful crimes due to our evil human nature. Our evil human nature is something we are born with and I wish people would not commit such hateful acts.

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