The House on Mango Street

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Alex Richards 09/23/14 CRN: 11707 Tuesday-Thursday Sigmund Freud is the founding father of psychology created a theory of personality called psychoanalysis. He describes his theory in three levels of personality called the id, ego, and superego. In the passage, the characters of the metamorphosis are father, mother and gregor younger sister. Gregor and his family portray many characteristics that pertain to Freud’s theory, specifically, the characteristics of the id, ego, and superego. When Gregor woke up that morning from a bad dream, he saw that he changed into a hideous insect. Gregor's father persona consists of all the three traits from Freuds personality theory when comparing him to the rest of the characters, which he demonstrates in many scenario. Gregor’s father represents the id, which is defined as seeking acknowledgement from others and being oblivious to the world around him and its condition and demand. By mopping around and acting like a child and not responding to his daughter's questions at the dinner table. For example, His daughter often asked her father if he wants a beer. And when he did not answer, she would said. She could also send the janitor's wife to get it, then her father finally answered with a No. Also he shows the trait of having to be taken care of like a child would, by having his wife and daughter carry him to bed. While leaning on the two women, he would get up painfully and traumatically, he let the women lead him to the door. In addition, there is one instance in which he demonstrates the ego role, but not without also showing id features, which is defined as executive mediating the impulsive. Freud theories and the metamorphosis, although not directly associated with each other, the share the same beliefs of the human instinct. Each character tends to the I.D trait, Mrs. Samsa reveals herself as the Id trait, by

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