Id - Ego - Superego

First ill give short definition of my understanding for Id, Ego, Superego.

Id - Our basic human instinct. It is the part of us that wants instant gratification.  It is the reason why babies will cry  until there human instincts are satisfied.

Ego - This facet starts developing at a stage when we become more aware of our surroundings and what may or may not be appropriate social behavior for any given situation.  Let's say if the baby that is crying to be fed was able to comprehend that its caregiver is going about preparing their food they might understand to stop crying. Same as an adult who makes a request understands that asking incessantly wont make it happen any faster so the socially acceptable thing would be to ask once and wait so as not to come across as ungrateful.  The ego decision is based on what others will think.

Superego - This facet develops last, it is based on the life lessons we have had up until that point.  These life lessons teaches us what is right and wrong, giving us our moral compass.  We apply our moral compass to assist us in making decisions that wont upset our said moral compass.  Superego and ego may both come to the same conclusion based on their own thought process.


I think we are all born functioning as just our Id.  As we go through life, growing, maturing, learning life lessons we develop our Ego and the Superego. Once we are a grown adults, I agree with Sigmund Freud.  He contends that Id, Ego, Superego all exist in each of us both serving their individual roles and coming together as an individual's personality.

 

 Say you're on a diet and there's a piece of luscious chocolate cake on the counter. The ID says, "go ahead, it's just one piece! Enjoy it!" while the SUPEREGO says, "You know you don't really want to. It would reverse all the good work you've done so far and you'd feel incredibly guilty if you ate it." Then the EGO is left to sort it out, determine logically how important it is to you to stay on your diet vs. the piece of cake.

The EGO is basically the "mediator" between your id and superego, trying to sort out what each is advocating and more objectively and logically arrive at a decision. All three can work in tandem at times when there is a disagreement or someone hasn't developed the latter 2 it can lead to person being tense and suffering from anxiety.

Songs that served me well

 

 

MUSIC



  

We all know what music is. we all know to appreciate music albeit different music is appreciated by different people. We don't all enjoy the same music. This leads me to believe that music affects all of  us in different ways and therefore we have different tastes in music. Based on our personalities, preferences and personal histories we will have different experiences when exposed to a particular piece of music. For some a particular piece of music may elevate their anxiety levels and for others it may significantly calm them down.

 

Further reading has led me to some research carried out by Daniel Abrams, lead author and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has found that brain regions involved in movement, attention, planning and memory consistently showed activation when participants listened to music -- these are structures that don't have to do with auditory processing itself. This means that when we experience music, a lot of other things are going on beyond merely processing sound.

 

Majority of the time I find that I may like a tune but what really makes it resonate with me are the words and the memories attached to the song from all the times I have heard them play.  For instance there is a song called cups from the movie pitch perfect.  I actually came across the song by accident this past summer and was amazed at the rhythm and harmonies and all the different cover versions that were available online.  After the amazement subsided I found myself playing it all through the summer at the request of my son. Now that song has a special place in my heart as it brings back the feelings and fun times I shared with my son watching the clip and attempting to copy it with him.  it is safe to say that I have possibly heard/watched every version of this song on YouTube.

 

 

 

 

This next song, I actually came to love and appreciate the tune after I paid attention to the words. I felt like it spoke directly to me.  After a while of listening to it, it didn't make a difference with or without the lyrics, it made me feel like I wasn't alone at that particular time. A time in my life when I felt alone and misunderstood.  The mood of the tune matched the lyrics beautifully. I found it easier to give this song to people close to me to help them understand how I felt at the time and what I was going through rather than trying to talk about how I felt.  Hearing the song quite a few years down the road, it still resonates with me and reminds me how far I come. Good feelings all round even though its associated with a difficult time in my life, it gave words to my feelings that at times were too painful to express.  It supported me like a friend would.

 

 

 

My taste in music has evolved and changed over the years.  Different periods, different happiness or struggles means that different kinds of music resonate with me at different times.  Not always am I in the mood of an upbeat song.  Sometimes I would just like to allow myself to wallow and listen to some sad tunes other times I will listen to something upbeat to shift a bad mood.  I would say that all types of music has 'spoken' to me at one time or another. However the one genre that I can say I have never felt a real kinship to, is the heavy rap.  I'm not sure if that's because they don't usually have a musical tune (some do and those I will listen to the chorus) or if its the violent nature of the lyrics.  Either way that isn't the music I ever find myself listening to.  But who knows what the future holds.

 

 

 

 



What makes me be ME?

 

There are many ways to look at self. 

Are we our physical body/being? Are we our thoughts, our actions or our conscience?

I believe we are a combination of both the tangible and the non tangible.  We are never quite only one or the other. A body without actions, thought or conscience is barely a complete person and that works vice versa too. It may be a physical being but not a human person. We are differentiated from animals by having intelligence to inquire/think about the truth of our existence.

 

It has often been reported, many people that have had heart transplants have been known to say that since the transplant they don't feel like themselves. They have new likes, dislikes and find themselves drawn to new experiences and interests that they've never had previously.  This lends to my belief stated above.

 

 

We go through life outwardly appearing the way we do, and we experience life through that façade, people treat us very much by the way we look.  Furthermore, those experiences affect and form our ways of thinking. Therefore, if our façade where to be different then our experience and thought process would differ.

I would therefore summarize that what makes me be me is the sum of my physical being and the experiences I have had in life up until now.  They have led me to think the way I think and act the way I act forming the person that is perceived as me.

This me will keep evolving and changing, the me of today will not be the me of the future but it will be the me of that time and place that was formed of my physical being, my experiences and the thoughts and actions that resulted of those.  We are a product of our past.