The ID, Ego and Super EGO Many have looked at Freud's description of the human mind as something that describes people and the way of their behavior. Freud’s division of the human mind consists of three things: the ID, the Ego and the Super Ego. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, these Freudian concepts can be compared to the characters of Jack, Piggy, Simon, and Ralph. Jack fits into the concept …showed first 75 words of 1674 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1674 total…our society is Ego-run and has lasted thousands of years. According to this chart, there is no telling to what a super-ego- run society would actually be like, though no doubt better then the other two. All of this is very significant, and there is much still to be learned about the Freudian Concepts of the human mind and Golding’s application of the concept of his novel’s characters and the microcosm in which