Part 1 of Essay
In The Tragedy of MacBeth, Lady MacBeth has strong id characteristics, and is not well balanced because her superego is severely out-weighed by her id. The id, superego, and ego are the 3 parts of a person’s psychological make up, accoring to Freudian psychology. Freud explained that the id is the part of the perso ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... conscience is them feeling their superego inside. Her superego is almost non-existent, but it is evident at one point in the play. The only time that it is shown is when she can’t actually kill King Duncan herself because he looks too much like her father. She said, “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.” The fact that Lady MacBeth does not have a balance eventually leads to her downfall. The id, ego, and superego are supposed to be at balance in a peron, but i ....