Freud's psychoanalysis

 Freud was the key starter in bringing up psychoanalysis and the ideas of psychology, he came up with a series of stages in the beginning of a humans life which link to how the human would develop psychologically. The phases he chose were; the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency stage and the genital stage. Each phase decided how the person would be when they grew up. He also theorised about the Id, Ego and the Superego, these three ideas were what Freud considered the three sections of the human psyche. The Id is a persons raw desire or what they wish for more than anything else, the Id is seen as not easily satisfied and once it gains what it desires then it moves its desire to something else, the Id keeps a person wanting however seen as mainly negative it is also shown as having a lot of positives such as a drive or a will to be better. The Superego is the dominating force shown as voices of authority that help us to control that wild desire created by the Id however good can also be shown as bad as those who always fear the Superego are never able to fulfil the Id. The Ego is a balancing force that tumbles between the two always trying to balance itself rather than falling to one side or the other. Freud argues that the five phases he describes earlier influence how much of a section is dominant compared to other sections. Freudian slips are slips of the tongue or thought that give light to a persons desire when they make a mistake, these slips show the id or supressed ideas that are given light typically when speaking.

Freud mentioned of 5 stages, These stages were the:

Oral stage: where a child is focused on oral related pleasures like eating and sucking. He believed that if the child had difficulties in this stage it would lead to issues later on in life such as smoking and alcohol abuse. He believed difficulties in this stage would also leave the person gullible and less independent.

Anal stage: where children is this stage are potty trained, learning when and how to go to the toilet. He believed children in this age who take a greater idea of when and how to do this lead to being more perfectionists whereas the opposites are seen as messy or disorganized. 

Phallic stage: According to Freud children during this age children begin to understand genitals and Freud argues that boys during this age develop unconscious sexual desires for their mother and a fear that their father will punish them for it. This is referred to as the Oedipus Complex and if a child is fixated at this stage it could cause them to develop.

latency stage: The latency stage is a period from age 6 to puberty where sexual urges remain repressed

Genital Stage: This stage continues from puberty onwards, this final stage leads to the person to switching their interests to the opposite sex.

Mad max can be argued to fall into the Id, Ego and Superego theory. In mad max the Superego would be his family or the fact he is a police officer, The ego would be max himself as he walks the line between justice and revenge. The wasteland itself can be considered the Id as it gives those within it the freedom to do whatever they want, whenever they want and however they want. Later in the movie as his police department starts to fall apart and his family are killed Max embraces the wasteland to get revenge on the injustice he was dealt. This balance is broken leaving max fully in the Id and lacking any form of superego. This can be taken a step further as in the second film he starts where he left off in the first, without any superego however he ends up finding a group of survivors which become the superego. When these survivors are threatened in the second film he embraces the Id again but this time as an effort to save them.

A scene that follows Freud's theory of id, ego and superego would be one of the scenes from saving private Ryan. 

The scene comes off the back of a risky attack on a machine gun nest. Having one of their fellow soldiers killed gives the soldiers a feeling of needing revenge. They want to kill the captured German soldier. In this scene the id would be the squad and their desire for revenge, the super ego would be Corporal Upham who wants to keep the captured soldier alive as it is immoral to kill a surrendering soldier. The ego is Tom Hanks's character Captain Miller who has to make the decision on what to do with this captured soldier. The scene shows the dilemma that Captain Miller faces and it is clear that although he would like to avenge one of his soldiers it is immoral, this leads Captain Miller to listen to the Superego and not embrace the Id even if he wanted to.