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Similarities Between Black Narcissus And Aggression
Glenn Radley
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Film 1290
01/10/2012

Black Narcissus and Repression

There is a comparison to be made between the characters in this film and the three elements of Freud's psychic apparatus: The super-ego, the ego and the id. Freud defines the super-ego as the regulatory force, the moral backbone and idealized version of ourselves that we will work to protect. The id on the other hand, is our subconscious instinctual mind. The ego's job is to work to live within the super-ego's confines, sublimate the id and all the while deal with the real world and the complexities therein. Only seen briefly in the film, the Mother Superior can easily be seen as Clodagh's super-ego. It can be summed up simply in this quote, in a discussion
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