#Majin Geets was the horse up until he overpowered Bobidi [insert old joke about horses only have two settings: murder and suic!de] | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shannonsketches · 3 months ago

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we all know that Goku and Vegeta's foil in terms of their divine transformations is literally just Freud's Id vs Ego, right

Like how id is raw instinct with no particular pattern and ego is the conscious command over one's instincts

like how Goku's body moves on its own without any conscious input, and Vegeta still has complete and distinctly conscious autonomy while flooded with immense power he has no experience controlling

like we must have talked about this, right? as a family?

#those chapters are several years old I assume this has been brought up #like instinct and ego definitely have their other fun meanings that apply too but like the core of it is -- I assume -- a direct reference?#I stand by my original breakdown about ego being a scary ugly thing in terms of common definition but also geets claiming to be tapping tha #instinctive destructive patterns but can't revert to it and instead spends the whole fight trying to talk down a man trying to kill him #that is also very definitively Freud's Ego. Command over instinct. The horseback rider in control of the horse etc #Which -- again -- makes it a FANTASTIC contrast to Majin Geets which was a panicked instinctive choice that sacrificed his autonomy #Majin Geets was the horse up until he overpowered Bobidi [insert old joke about horses only have two settings: murder and suic!de]#And ego despite his outward ferality and ferocity is actually calmly and confidently in absolute control of himself and his desires #the illustrated difference between arrogance and confidence which makes the characters calling it a weird ego boost both funny and ironic #media analysis #dbtag

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