ID, EGO, SUPEREGO

Religion is clearly a huge part of the movie that we were watching in class. I believe that religion was so prevalent in the movie because religion was a great part of the life of a black person during the time that the movie was made. During this time, people of the black race did not have much other than their individual and unique talents, and they had each other. They usually would get together for church or religious purposes. I think it is because religion was such a large substantial part of black life and the movie involved all black people, it would have been inaccurate not to put religion into the movie. Also religion was just a part of the plot of the movie. I was learning about the id, ego, and the superego in psychology sometime this week or last week I think. It is very interesting to me that we watched that movie because it corresponds to what I learned about the id, ego, superego. The devil is the representation of the id. The id is the part of one’s personality that is present at birth and is completely unconscious and it makes a person want to do what will satisfy a person’s desires at the particular moment. The angel is a representation of the superego. The superego is basically the moral center of personality. It desires to do what is the right thing at all times according to the rules, customs, and expectations of society. The poor person in the middle that has to ration choose is a representation f the ego. The ego develops out of the need to deal with realty which is that here are two extremes o deal with. The was magnificently portrayed throughout the movie through the use of religion. LaTasha Moss