I personally thought today's class discussion on Freud was really interesting. In my opinion the id, ego, and superego are the strongest aspects of Frued's view on human nature because they break good ideas down into something that makes sense. A lot of the time philosophy can be really confusing but Frued was to the point on how humans think. The id is all our instinctive urges, the ego is reality and the superego is ideality. It can't get much more simply explained than that. We as humans are [most likely] the only beings that have a superego and are able to imagine how the world ought to be. Are any of these areas dominating though? As we talked about in class we see a lot of certain types of advertising in the media. Are we taking advantage of our egos and superegos to bring more of our ids out? Almost all commercials and magazine covers are based on ideal desires to get us motivated to either buy their product or act a certain way or look a certain way. Anything the companies think is pleasing or attractive to the eye of anyone in the community will be put into the commercial or put onto the cover of the magazine. It is to play upto the sexual motivation that exits in everyones id. How long will it be before it gets too out of hand? Or has it gotten to that point already?
Has the media gone too far with the sexual motivation?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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