The Hierarchy of three layers of human personality.

According to Sigmud Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, it composed of three elements. They are known as the Id, the ego, and the superego.

                                                                      Id

         Ego

      Superego

1. The Id is the only component of personality that is present from birth. This aspect of personality is entirely unconscious and includes of the instinctive and primitive behaviors. It is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary component of personality. For example if we hungry, we will attempt to eat.

2. The Ego is the component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality. According Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the Id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world.  The ego functions in both the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind.

3. The Superego is the aspect of personality that holds all of our internalized moral standards and ideals that we acquire from both parents and society our sense of right and wrong. The superego provides guidelines for making judgments. The superego acts to perfect and civilize our behavior.

The analysis of dialogue Antigon

Creon : As long as I am King, no traitor is going to be honored with the loyal man. But whoever shows by word and deed that he is on the State, --he shall have my respect while he is living and my reverence when he is dead.

It means that people who respect to him will be respected too. It appears from Creon’s intrinsic personality himself. He will be angry if people do not respect him. So it can be concluded that Creon belongs to Id.

Haimon: father, Reason is God’s crowning gift to man, and you are right

To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say

I hope that I shall never want to say!—that you

Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men

Who you are not in a position to know everything

That people say or do, or what they feel:

Your temper terrifies them—everyone will tell you only what you like to hear.

But I, at any rate, can listen; and I have heard them

Muttering and whispering in the dark about this girl.

They say no woman has ever, so unreasonably,

Died so shameful a death for a generous act:

“She covered her brother’s body. Is this indecent?

She kept him from dogs and vultures. Is this a crime?

Death?—She should have all the honor that we can give her!”

Haimon: Not here, no; she will not die here, King.

And you will never see my face again.

Go on raving as long as you’ve a friend to endure you.

Haimon say the fact about his father. He said that Creon was bad. He never heard anyone else. He only taught from one side, but never taught from the others. He told his father the goodness of Antigon to her brother, he blamed his father but he didn’t do anything because he couldn’t. He consciously knew that his father was wrong, but preconscious he did not know how to help her from this situation. So unconsciously he said that he would end his live. He did not help the situation moreover gave more trouble in it.  Haimon was in the Ego. He only considered the reality that he saw but didn’t considered the impact.

Antigon:

Listen Ismene:

Creon buried our brothers Eteocles with military honors, gave him a soldier’s funeral,

And it was right that he should; but Polyneices, who fought as bravely and died at miserably, they say that Creon has sworn

No one shall bury him, no one mourn for him, but his body must lie in the fields, a sweet treasure

For carrion birds to find as they search for blood

That is what they say, and our good Creon is coming here

To announce it publicly; and the penalty

Stoning to death in the public square!

Antigon was conscious that God’s rule must be obeyed. Polyneices had the right to be buried in the fields in order to the body was not eaten by the birds and other animals which like blood, but Creon as the King of Thebes forbidden it. Antigon was a kind, she taught her brother to have the same right. From this, we know that Antigon in the superego. She can know whether it is good or not, and considered the effect of it.