The Id Comes Alive

We are reading Lord of the Flies in English 12, often discussing Freud's theory of the tripartite psyche. Today we were recalling what we knew about each part of the psyche before focusing on the id.

One student who had missed the initial lesson on the psyche was determined to understand each of its components. When our class reiterated that the id represents the drive for hunger, pleasure, and aggression, this student asked, "So it's like when you get an erection when you sleep?"