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Superego In Scarlet Letter

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The Good, the Bad, and the In-Between
Sigmund Freud, an intellectual genius, created an entirely new technique that dealt with the understanding of the human personality. This technique, called psychoanalysis, consists of three parts. The id responds directly to his or her instincts, while the superego relies on his or her conscience. Lastly, the ego represents reality, or the balance between the id and superego. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, the three levels of subconsciousness are ideally filled by the main characters, Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale.
“The id is the first part of the personality, which includes our primitive impulses; such as anger, hunger, and hatred” (İSAOĞLU 502). Roger
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