Dealing With The Monsters From The ID: 9 Techniques For Overcoming Panic Attacks By Communicating With The Unconscious Mind
“Monsters from the Id, John.”
Dr. C.X. Ostrow clutched the arm of Commander John J. Adams in the 1955 science fiction movie Forbidden Planet and stared at him feverishly.
“Morbius was too close to the problem. He didn’t see that when the Krell machine gave the Conscious Mind a boost, it also boosted the Id that lies in the Unconscious. It is where the mass of formless, bestial impulses develop…”
Anyone who saw Forbidden Planet would never forget it as the first movie to convey a postulate of Freudian psychoanalysis … the Unconscious Mind.
For those too young to remember “Forbidden Planet”, it’s a tale of Morbius, a mad scientist who survives a disaster on a distant planet and discovers a super-scientific race known as the “Krell”. The Krell had developed machines that boosted their intelligence and gave substance to their thoughts.
Unfortunately, the Krell destroyed themselves by unleashing primeval monsters lurking in the Id.
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