Regarding Henry Personality

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From one personality to another, Henry from the movie, Regarding Henry, has his life flipped upside down when an unexpected event puts him in the hospital and changes his life forever. Henry is a top corporate lawyer that contains a Superego personality which involves him demanding and insisting help with his job and work. As he finishes a case in court, Henry decides to go get some cigarettes at a nearby convenience store, but the store is being held up by a robber. As a result, Henry is demanded to give the robber his money but decides not to give it up; therefore, Henry is shot at point blank. The doctor at the hospital where Henry is located states that Henry will not be the same as before. Due to the diagnosis, Henry’s personality switches from Superego to an Id Superego is the personality that shows the critical, demanding, and moral side of a person. For example, at the beginning of the movie in Henry’s office, Henry is demanding his secretary to gather all these things and information for him. Another example is when Henry gets upset that the table in his house looks too much like a turtle and wants it replaced. All of these examples show the moral and critical side of Henry. Finally, another example is that he helps a family that he wronged in a previous case because it was the right thing to do. Is Henry’s natural state Id or Superego? Henry expresses both Id and Superego in Regarding Henry. Although he expresses both, Henry’s natural state is Id even though both are expressed. Henry’s natural state is Id because when someone basically starts their life over, they are starting their personality over too. Due to Henry’s work as a lawyer, he has lost so much time with his family that his personality was Superego at the beginning, but once the accident took place his personality changed back to his natural state of

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