Huck Finn-critical

By some, Sigmund Freud is called the father of modern psychology. Sigmund Freud believed in four main ideas toward psychology. His ideas are (1) the id, (2) the superego, (3) the ego, and (4) Oedipus. The id is completely unconscience and is the primary source of all psychic energy and of all aggressions. The superego is largely unconscience as well. Freud believed it was the moral censoring agency and the advocate of perfection. The ego is mostly conscience. Freud …

…classic novel. By showing the symbolization of the river being Huck's mother, his rebellion towards Pap, and his quest for a surrogate father, one can see Freud's id, superego, ego, and Oedipus expressed. Huck grows up, throughout the novel, in the sense that he loses his innocence: He begins to understand the hypocrisy of society. Regardless, Huck functions as a much nobler person when he is not confined by the hypocrisies of civilization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**