Young Goodman Brown
...y by his id, ego, and superego. The experience of Goodman Brown throughout the night is the thing in his unconscious and it becomes to come out by talking with the man the staff when Goodman Brown is in a hypnotic state. His unconscious shows what he really wants. It is id. In other words, his conscious can be ego, which controls his unconscious. In conversation with the man and Goodman Brown, the man elicits the conscious among the unconscious, and in the process of eliciting, there are some inevitable clashes between the conscious and unconscious because eliciting means a conflict between id and ego. In the story, Goodman Brown has known that he is doing something wrong. The reason why he didn’t reject decisively the man’s offer is so simple because his id wants to go with the man against his ego. His id resists his ego and ego represses his id by repressing him not to go. We can see Goodman Brown in the state of resistance and repression. For example, in the paragraph 15, Goodman Brown said that ‘Friend, having kept covenant by meeting thee here, it is my purpose now to return whence I came. I have scruples touching the matter thou wot’st of.’ It shows that his ego is repressing his id not to go because his ego knows that what he does is not right. The man with staff plays the same role as the psychoanalyst in Freud’s Second Lecture. He makes Goodman Brown talk constantly. In my opinion, his talking to Goodman brown tries to put Goodman Brown in hypnosis. Being in a hypnotic trance, Goodman Brown can see the unconscious of his. In the middle of story, Goodman Brown sat himself down on the stump of a tree and refused to go any farther. This part is the sy...