The Superego In The Movie Regarding Henry

The movie Regarding Henry is about a ruthless lawyer who gets shot in the head during a convenience store robbery. Amazingly he recovers from his shooting and slowing becomes himself again. When he first wakes up he can barely function but he soon turns into a playful fun version of himself. As he spends more time in the real world he slowly realizes the struggles of life and ventures back into his superego state of mind. Because of the context given in the movie, it is understandable to believe the Superego is his natural state from first glance, but if you look closer it’s obvious that it is the Id.
After Henry gets shot and recovers the first thing he exhibits is his Id, it is portrayed by his actions and word. While watching the movie there is no Superego sides for a while. Henry is playful, selfish, and carefree. One of the first examples that the Id is visible is the scene where it is time for him to go home to
The reason behind this is, before he entered back into his work space of ruthless lawyers, he was childlike and typically only did things using his Id. As time progressed, Henry started doing more superego thing but that wasn't until he was brought back into society. In his natural state, before all the pressures of work and social normalities he was his true self, his Id self.
In the beginning of Regarding Henry, Henry Turner was a powerful supperago induled lawyer. After he was shot in the head and went threw an amazing recovery, where he had the basically start from scratch, he ventured back into his Id like personalty. Freud's theory of the mind is representing in the movie through Henery and how he goes into the three different levels of the mind as he goes threw his recovery and rehabilitation into real life. Overall anyone can relate to this moving because it is quite possible that everyone's natural state is the Id, but not everyone expresses it as well as