Veronika is powerless to face her life
49 Veronika’s fear of her future that she thinks it will be transformed into tragedy
leads Veronika to avoid the reality. Veronika’s desire to avoid the reality proves that the ego which works based on the reality principles is dominated by the id which
works based on pleasure feelings. The id which works based on the pleasure principles dominated Veronika’s personality. It leads Veronika to ignore the ego and
the super ego. Veronika’s decision to commit suicide and her suicide attempt also shows how the id plays a big role to Veronika’s behavior. Veronika’s desire not to
continue her life by committing suicide that she thinks it will give her pleasure feeling proves that she does not give any spaces to her ego and super ego. Veronika
does not think of any worst things that will be caused by her suicide. The example of how Veronika’s ego cannot control the id can be seen from
Veronika’s consideration of her parents’ feeling about her death. Veronika realizes that her death will give the bad impact to her parents but she thinks that her parents
would get used of her death eventually p. 3. Veronika’s thought that her parents would get used of her death eventually proves that the id has gives a big role that
affects Veronika’s behaviors. Verronika ignores all the impacts of her suicide just to fulfill her unconscious need of a pleasure feeling.
Veronika’s consideration of her parents’ feeling about her death also shows that her ego tries to control the id needs, but the thanatos within herself has
dominated Veronika’s personality. Veronika still keeps on her plan of destroying herself by committing suicide that she thinks it will give her a pleasure feeling.
50 Moreover, Veronika’s superego cannot control her id. Freud defines that the
superego represents our conscience and it includes the moral values of right and wrong that are largely instilled in us by our parents. Further, Freud explains that the
superego makes us feel guilty. In her decision to commit suicide and her suicide attempt Veronika never includes the moral values, Veronika does not consider that
her suicide attempt against the moral values. Moreover, Veronika does not feel guilty of her action to commit suicide and the bad impact caused by her suicide. Veronika
does not feel guilty of breaking the moral values. Veronika ignores all the bad impact of her suicide to the society and her parents. Veronika’s behavior of breaking the
moral values shows that her superego cannot influence her personality and her behaviors. Veronika’s superego cannot control her id. Veronika’s id has dominated
her superego. The thanatos has played a big role that leads Veronika to keep on her plan to commit suicide even though she has to break the moral values that means she
ignores her superego. Freud defines that the id functions on pleasure principles, which dictates the
immediate satisfaction of drives. Veronika’s suicide attempt proves that Veronika is dictated by the id which functions on pleasure principles to satisfy that needs of the id
immediately. In the other words, Veronika’s suicide attempt is a way to fulfill the need of the id which operates at unconscious level of human personality.
Veronika’s decision to commit suicide and her suicide attempt is influenced by the id, especially the thanatos, a destructive drive. Veronika’s personality is
controlled by the thanatos drive. The example of how thanatos plays a big role to