This image reflects on my Critical Analysis essay. My essay revolves around the super ego, ego, and id in “Super Frog Saves Tokyo”. In this short story the main character, Katagiri, has conflict between a frog and worm. Both are in his conscious, but the frog stands for the superego, the part of the mind that is seen as always right. The frog displays the man with wings holding the man by his neck because the frog is trying to prevent himself from getting close to the bad side of him. The bad side of him is the one to the right, the messing and devilish one. The worm displays the id because the worm became active when he was angered and that was the bad side trying to get in control. Katagiri tried to stop the bad side to come out, and it is seen in the picture where the man is trying is haul the bad side to getting close to him. This is how the image reminded me of my CRA essay.
This image I uploaded has a lot of meaning behind it. Due to the power of the black cat in the story, “The Black Cat”. The cat went from being the narrator’s favorite animal and ending up being his worst nightmare. The Black Cat was a revolving image in the narrator’s head as it lead to his downfall. The Black Cat exposed him of killing his wife, and lead to his hallucination towards the end of the story as he imagined the cat attacking him. The power of the Black Cat was a revolving theme in my interpretation of the story.
The song Breaking The Habit, by Linkin Park reminds me of some of the characters we read about. The song is what the title says, breaking a habit. Reading about patients with wishful impulses, suppression, repression, and the conflict with the three egos we learn how it becomes a habit they have to fight. From these habits, we read on their journey of breaking these habits and try to better themselves. For example, in ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo”, we see how the main character fights the habit of loneliness through his egos to help give himself fulfillment in society. Habit’s some of these patients develop affect them crucially in the stories.
This meme I made contributes to the concepts we learned about the three human personalities in this course. We learned that the “id” influences the ego to fulfill these dark and unaccepted actions society wouldn’t accept. Then the superego counteracts that as it lets the ego know what is seen to be right to distance you from being influenced by your id. With this meme I made you see that with the pink character(superego) furthering the man(ego) from the yellow ball(id). I felt like doing this it showed a clear image of how the egos contradict each other.
