Life Of Pi Psychoanalytic Analysis

Psychoanalysis of Life of Pi After a traumatic event, a type of therapy known as psychoanalysis is used to help the victim of the event reach closure. Psychoanalysis is a system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind. Many people have read the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, and interpreted it from a psychoanalytic perspective. This theory consists of three critical segments: the ID, the superego, and the ego. The ID is the part of the mind that is home to all unconscious desires and fears. In other words, the story Pi conjured to cope with what really happened. The ID is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary component of personality (Sigmund Freud). Pi’s mother, a french cook, and a sailor all pass in a very gruesome way. Pi’s mother is told as the orangutan, her and the french cook get into a quarrel, and even though she puts up a fight, the cook wins in the end. The french cook takes after the hyena, he kills Pi’s mother and the sailor, but he eventually loses to Pi, as Pi takes after the Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker. The sailor in the story, shows the same characteristics of the zebra. His leg is broken, the chef amputates his leg and uses it as
The ego balances the ID and processes your experiences and daily events into reality. After going blind, Pi started talking to somebody. At first, he thinks that he is talking to Richard Parker but Pi’s ego intercepts the fact that Richard Parker wouldn't have a French accent. Pi uses his ID to say that the Bengal tiger ate the man with a French accent, because his ego realizes that the Frenchman was actually the cook. The ego’s job is to meet the needs of the ID. But that does not mean that it will judge right from