Friday, September 17, 2010

The Freudian sense 9-17-10

For this blog, my mission is to invent a new sense to go along with the five senses we already have. Since the possibility of the existence of ESP/Sixth Sense is already out there, I wanted to try something different. What if we could sense how much id, ego, and superego exists within a person's mind?

For those not familiar with Freud:
Id is associated with sexual, aggressive, and self-satisfying urges.
Ego is associated with organization and realism(thanks to Wikipedia for reminding me, because I had forgotten what the ego was; I only remembered it as the "self").
Superego is mainly associated with morals.

I invented a special apparatus that actually measures how much of each part of the psyche exists. That apparatus is named the Freudian Goggles. When one wears these goggles, one is able to switch modes of vision from normal to a type of thermal vision that, instead of tracking people's body heat, it would track their brains to trace the amounts of id, ego, and superego.

The id is represented by the color red.
The ego is represented by the color green.
The superego is represented by the color blue.

This type of apparatus might be used by law enforcement to track down persons with high levels of id and low levels of ego and superego to prevent crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, etc., just like the Pre-Crime enforcement in Minority Report. Those people might be singled out and transported to a facility where they are psychologically evaluated and then treated through a type of Ludovico technique(A Clockwork Orange) to regulate and normalize the id, ego, and superego, or to extensively lower the levels of id and heighten the levels of ego and superego.

Though, there is the risk that this might lead to intrusive dictatorship-like control and loss of privacy, such as that within the world established in George Orwell's 1984, but only time would tell if that happens, if this sense actually does exist.

Thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego for help on the Ego definition

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