A few weeks ago we talked about Freud and the human psyche. Freud had a huge impact on art because he changed the way people thought. Many poets and artists of all types based their work on his ideas. They also used free association and dream analyses for their work. Freud came up with idea that the human psyche is made up of 3 parts. The Id which is what tells you that you want something, the ego which manages the Id it "attempts to adapt needs of the id to the real world" and the super ego which is your conscious. Some times this conscious can never develop that is what makes mass murderers and other people who you could tell have no morals. This is why the conscious is important to your mind because it tells you what is right and what is wrong. It can also develop that feeling of guilt after doing something wrong. Why is that some peoples conscious never develops? and if it doesn't develop can they be accountable for what they did. Of course they can, but if it was a justified excuse more people would use it everyday. The humanities tradition workbook states that "the super ego monitors human behavior according to principles, inculcated by parents,teachers and authority figures. Basically the conscious learns form childhood experiences which is true because it usually develops around 7 or 8 years of age. Based on this information I can guess that most murderers probably do have a bad childhood. In most movies and TV shows its also the same way. Today I read an article (Austria Incest Case )about a man who locked his daughter up for 21 years and raped her. Besides being disgusting one thing in the article made me think about that idea of childhood and the conscious. "At one point, his voice breaking, Fritzl briefly recalled his childhood and said life with his mother was "very difficult." Asked if he had friends, he said simply: "No."". This section came from the article, even though there is no proof of this it does make sense and goes with the idea that childhood really does affect the conscious. I'm sure everyone agrees that to do what he did really shows that he had no morals. This doesn't mean he is really innocent because he definitely isn't but it shows that we should be very careful with children growing up. One bad experience could probably scar them for the rest of their life and turn them into something horrible.