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Id: It’s all about me: Food, sex, aggression. The pleasure principle… Ego: Reality principle. Reason and caution…as well as independence. The Gatekeeper between Id, Superego and Reality. Superego: Conscience…moral…right v. wrong According to Freud… A repressed feeling of a boy’s desire to sexually possess his mother…and to ultimately kill his father. Freud also promulgated the thought that girls have the same feelings toward their mother at an early age. Differs from the Electra Complex…Jung What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening? At the Crossroads, Oedipus tested his fate…and unknowingly kills his natural father, Laius. In Goethe’s Dr. Faust (16th Century) Faust exchanges his soul with the Devil for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Blues musician, Robert Johnson, is reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil for the ability to play the blues guitar… The trading of one’s morals (morality) in order to have unlimited power, riches, influence… Oedipus at the Crossroads…inadvertently chases humanity and disregards divine powers. View: The way he was v. the way he wanted to be! Result? Eternal Damnation… Usually evokes empathy… Has a weakness, usually pride Something has gone awry in his/her life Usually faced with a very serious decision he must make Noble in nature Must understand his mistakes… Likely doomed from the start… Begins his “journey” as no better or worse than the rest of us… “Not then had I become My father’s murderer, Nor wedded her I have my being from : Whom now no God will bless, Child of incestuousness In her that bare me, being the spouse of her, Yea, if aught ill worse than all ill be there, That Oedipus must bear” (48). “Dwellers in Thebes, behold this Oedipus, The man who solved the riddle marvelous, A prince of men, Whose lot what citizen Did not with envy see, How deep the billows of calamity Above him roll. Watch therefore and regard the supreme day; And of no mortal say “That man is happy,” till Vexed by no grievous ill He passes Life’s goal.