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The Superego, Id, and Ego: How the Freudian Psychoanalysis Relates to Hegelian Dialectics

 Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the third Action Project of the Humanities class, A Nation's Argument. In this unit, Synthesis: the 1960s, we have been studying the 1950s to the 1970s. We started by taking a look at the Jim Crow era and the effect it had on people of color. We then watched the documentary, Thirteenth, directed by Ava DuVernay. We also looked at the era of lynching in a video interview of Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, from Democracy Now. Because this was a shorter unit, we started getting into the details of the Action Project that would come a bit later. This included the dialectical method of argument created by philosopher Georg Hegel. For Field Experiences, we met with UIC sociologist Andy Clarno, who has done some work looking at Chicago's gang database and the CIA-backed software Oracle. Chicago's gang database was made to have a system where all gang members of Chicago would be identified and kept under watch. Now, that original intention seems less present as anyone can be added to the database without any evidence such as criminal history. Anyone of color that lives in neighborhoods consisting predominantly of people of color can become a suspect gang member and be put onto the database. The database also has some flaws which Andy notes expressively along with organizations like Erase the Database. Going back to the AP, we have been looking at the Hegelian dialectic. This method of argument is demonstrated in my slideshow which gives a little more explanation about the project.

AP3 Slideshow, GS, 2022

I hope you enjoyed looking at the slideshow I created. The topic I chose for this AP required me to be more open with a piece of my personal life. When deciding what I wanted to do this project on, I was stuck because I thought the dream experience would work great but it is personal. After deciding to go with it I found that writing about it was easier than expected and I had a lot of confidence in myself to continue talking about it. From what I heard of my peer's topics, I thought they were interesting. This post, among a couple others, was made in a shorter unit because of the ending of the school term. While this unit was quite short, and the AP even more so, I had a lot of fun with it. After doing everything up until now, I think back on my topic and am happy with talking about it. Talking with someone about my dreams really helped me in more ways than one and I am very grateful for that. My personal life has changed for the better and my school life has had some improvements because of it as well. Thank you for reading and I hope to see you in the next post.

Sources:
Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World. FSG Classics, Aschehoug, 5 Dec. 1991, Accessed 10 Mar. 2022
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