English 1022E Study Guide - Final Guide: Reality Principle

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Allan Pero

Document Summary

Psychoanalytical critical theory is the examination of a text using a psychological perspective. Psychology focuses on patterns of behaviour for our purposes, we will focus on one psychologist and one of his theories just to make things more simple: freudian criticism- the id, ego and superego. Sigmund freud came to see the personality as having 3 different aspects which work together to produce all of our complex behaviours; the id, ego and. All these components need to be well balanced in order to have reasonable mental health. The ego should be constantly mediating between the id and superego. Ego (the reality principle) superego: emotional (cid:498)i want what i want when i want it(cid:499)