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'Super Ego'
Mixed media on canvas
2007
Alter Egotism – meggs solo Exhibition
23rd November – 2nd December 2007
Utopian Slumps Gallery
Collingwood, Melbourne.
SOLD
salgo cn una cara de vivaaa XD
pero no tngo mah fotos XD
pd. se me corrio la pintura XD
y tngo los tremendos cachetonesss
is the ego a window to the soul
Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the ego is the organized, realistic part; and the super-ego plays the critical and moralising role.
Even though the model is "structural" and makes reference to an "apparatus", the id, ego and super-ego are functions of the mind rather than parts of the brain and do not correspond one-to-one with actual somatic structures of the kind dealt with by neuroscience.
The concepts themselves arose at a late stage in the development of Freud's thought: the 'structural model' (which succeeded his 'economic model' and 'topographical model') was first discussed in his 1920 essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and was formalised and elaborated upon three years later in his "The Ego and the Id". Freud's proposal was influenced by the ambiguity of the term "unconscious" and its many conflicting uses.
IdThe id comprises the disorganised part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives. The id acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension.
The id is unconscious by definition:
'It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learned from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of that is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organisation, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle'.
In the id,
'contrary impulses exist side by side, without cancelling each other out....There is nothing in the id that could be compared with negation...nothing in the id which corresponds to the idea of time'.
Developmentally, the id is anterior to the ego; i.e. the psychic apparatus begins, at birth, as an undifferentiated id, part of which then develops into a structured ego. Thus, the id:
". . contains everything that is inherited, that is present at birth, is laid down in the constitution -- above all, therefore, the instincts, which originate from the somatic organisation, and which find a first psychical expression here (in the id) in forms unknown to us."
The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely "id-ridden", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual—often humorously—with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end.
The id is responsible for our basic drives, 'knows no judgements of value: no good and evil, no morality...Instinctual cathexes seeking discharge - that, in our view, is all there is in the id'. It is regarded as 'the great reservoir of libido', the instinctive drive to create - the life instincts that are crucial to pleasurable survival. Alongside the life instincts came the death instincts — the death drive which Freud articulated relatively late in his career in 'the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state'. For Freud, 'the death instinct would thus seem to express itself - though probably only in part - as an instinct of destruction directed against the external world and other organisms': through aggression. Freud considered that 'the id, the whole person...originally includes all the instinctual impulses...the destructive instinct as well' as Eros or the life instincts.
The Ego acts according to the reality principle; i.e. it seeks to please the id’s drive in realistic ways that will benefit in the long term rather than bringing grief. At the same time, Freud concedes that as the ego 'attempts to mediate between id and reality, it is often obliged to cloak the Ucs. [Unconscious] commands of the id with its own Pcs. [Preconscious] rationalizations, to conceal the id's conflicts with reality, to profess...to be taking notice of reality even when the id has remained rigid and unyielding'.
The Ego comprises that organised part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious. Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgement, tolerance, reality-testing, control, planning, defence, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory. The ego separates out what is real. It helps us to organize our thoughts and make sense of them and the world around us. "The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world ... The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions ... in its relation to the id it is like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces". Still worse, "it serves three severe masters...the external world, the super-ego and the id". Its task is to find a balance between primitive drives and reality while satisfying the id and super-ego. Its main concern is with the individual's safety and allows some of the id's desires to be expressed, but only when consequences of these actions are marginal. "Thus the ego, driven by the id, confined by the super-ego, repulsed by reality, struggles...[in] bringing about harmony among the forces and influences working in and upon it", and readily "breaks out in anxiety - realistic anxiety regarding the external world, moral anxiety regarding the super-ego, and neurotic anxiety regarding the strength of the passions in the id". It has to do its best to suit all three, thus is constantly feeling hemmed by the danger of causing discontent on two other sides. It is said, however, that the ego seems to be more loyal to the id, preferring to gloss over the finer details of reality to minimize conflicts while pretending to have a regard for reality. But the super-ego is constantly watching every one of the ego's moves and punishes it with feelings of guilt, anxiety, and inferiority.
To overcome this the ego employs defense mechanisms. The defense mechanisms are not done so directly or consciously. They lessen the tension by covering up our impulses that are threatening. Ego defense mechanisms are often used by the ego when id behavior conflicts with reality and either society's morals, norms, and taboos or the individual's expectations as a result of the internalisation of these morals, norms, and their taboos.
Denial, displacement, intellectualisation, fantasy, compensation, projection, rationalisation, reaction formation, regression, repression, and sublimation were the defense mechanisms Freud identified. However, his daughter Anna Freud clarified and identified the concepts of undoing, suppression, dissociation, idealisation, identification, introjection, inversion, somatisation, splitting, and substitution.
"The ego is not sharply separated from the id; its lower portion merges into it... But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id." (Sigmund Freud, 1923)In a diagram of the Structural and Topographical Models of Mind, the ego is depicted to be half in the consciousness, while a quarter is in the preconscious and the other quarter lies in the unconscious.
In modern English, ego has many meanings. It could mean one’s self-esteem, an inflated sense of self-worth, or in philosophical terms, one’s self. Ego development is known as the development of multiple processes, cognitive function, defenses, and interpersonal skills or to early adolescence when ego processes are emerged.
Ego
© Alexei Vella
A personal illustration about people with big Egos. I tried to limit the use of line work, which I use quite a bit - I think its a success.
Leica MP
Leica Elmarit 28mm f/2.8 III
Fuji Neopan 400
Fomadon Excel 1+0
6 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
Revelada y ampliada por mí. Esa es la gracia que tiene.
Y sigo diciendo, el scanner no es de lo mejor, pero se entiende la idea.
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Does one of your girls have one? Wish she had one? You get the idea... if not...here's a little explanation and some examples courtesy of wiki :)
Alter Ego: (Latin, "the other I") is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person, who is often oblivious to the persona's actions. It was coined in the early nineteenth century when dissociative identity disorder was first described by psychologists. A person with an alter ego is said to lead a double life... Less precisely, alter ego can also refer to the different behaviors any person may display in various situations.
Examples:
Clark Kent is Superman's alter ego in the Superman comics.
Batman is the alter ego of Bruce Wayne in the Batman comics.
Spider-Man is the alter ego of Peter Parker in the Spider-Man comics.
OK, get the idea? :) So put your thinking cap on, and come up with one of your girls Alter Egos!
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Forbidden Adventures
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i usually take my photos during my son's nap, and today i had to run an important errand at that time so my son came with me and slept in his car-seat.. i was waiting in a parking lot to meet my mother-in-law to finish the errand, and i only had my canon powershot with me..so i decided 'd take some shots to see if i could work with one of the images i took. i felt very stupid sitting there in this busy parking lot taking photos of myself, and i thought if anybody is looking at me..they must think i am some narcissistic weirdo!
well there has to be some truth to that because who on earth would choose to do a self portrait 365 that wasn't slightly vain? which leads to this image and the thoughts behind it...
there are 2 ways that i think of ego.. the first is the most commonly used sense..
your pride, your vanity, the "who" that you think you are...
but i usually use the word ego to describe the lower nature.. the part of humanity that is drama filled and comes from the repetitive programs of the mind.. the part of us that is not the highest..
i think that no matter what path you choose to follow, the spiritual journey is ultimately about dissolving the ego and developing the heart
not saying that i am anywhere near dissolving mine- in fact i have a pretty strong one that i battle constantly.. but i am working on it!
:)
big love to my flickr friends!!! a special thanks and cyber hugs if you take the time to listen to me ramble
Last week I was just playing around in my kitchen with a flashlight. Before I dumped the images onto my laptop, I scrolled through the them quickly on my camera and realized it kind of made an animation. Gotta try this some where besides my kitchen now. :-)
The music is a recording I made of Josh playing a djimba and a didgeridoo.
I genuinely love to spend time as my female alter ego, Helene Barclay, and I adore the hours I feel I am really female. Of course it's a delusional frame of mind as inevitably the male I am reasserts and I have to wash off my makeup, remove my wig and return to being a man.
It's strange that I truly desire to be female when I dress up as a woman yet a few hours later I'm happy t be male and continue that life. It's all part of being a transvestite. Other men ae not programmed as transvestites are so cannot comprehend why we would want to dress up and try to be women. I don't quite understand it myself but I know I desire to do it and get totally into being a woman.
I always find the biggest challenge for transvestites is trying t feminise your facial features so I am somewhat obsessed with makeup techniques and love to wear it on my face. Makeup boosts my confidence and I always feel good wearing it. I just feel good being a woman, I love it!
It is difficult to try a close up photo when cross-dressed as getting a feminine looking body shape is relatively easy but the face is the area I struggle with. I was told recently I look very ugly as a woman but hey...I'm a man so I'm never really going to look female am I? It does not stop me trying though as I am driven and am always excited to try and create an illusion of being a woman. I know I'm not attractive looking but think the ugly comment was someone being a bit nasty so be assured I did not take it to heart.
I do see other transvestites here on Flickr who are absolutely gorgeous looking as women and acknowledge I will never look as beautiful or as feminine as the are able to. I think it is a case though of trying to make the best of what you one has and try to create a presentable image. A journey I'm still on but I do feel I improve as I continue along its path.
I had a lot of fun and huge thrills getting ready for this picture and really had a great and rather lovely time posing away as helene instead of my usual male persona. It is great fun being a transvestite...I love it!
Helene x
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Emotions do strange things to people.
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Built as overspill for the well established Mattersons & Huxley Ironmongers and Hardware (behind the camera and now the City's Transport Museum) this fine building became a newspaper distribution warehouse from the late 1960's till the late 1980's by which time there where massive changes in how newspapers where compiled, printed and distributed, making it somewhat surplus to requirements. After some time as an obscure industrial unit it was taken on by a West African Church Ministry (upper floors) and the ground level was taken on by EGO Performance Company, an arts organisation. It is also a music and film venue, and with the simple act of sending a text message to the bar, sweets and drinks will be delivered to one's seat !