ID, ego and superego in the film, emperor's new groove

ID- Kuzco/ devil
Superego- Pacha/ angle
Ego- Kronk

In the film emperors new groove, you can argue that there is more than one superego and ID. The first ID is Kuzco the emperor that gets turned into a llama and the superego is Patcha. This is clear from the scene where Pacha and Kuzco meet for the first time. In this scene Kuzco wants to build a pool house on the hill where Pacha and other families live. Kuzco doesn't care for the consequences his desire is to build this home and he is not waiting for the families to move our showing he wants immediate gratification. Pacha is the Superego as he is trying to convince Kuzco that building the home is the wrong thing to do, he is trying to set a moral guideline which Kuzco (the ID) is not listening to. Not only does the dialog show the traits of the ID and superego but the actions of the characters, the way that Kuzco smashes his model house on top of the model hill crushing all the houses show that it is clear what he wants and he doesn't care how he gets it, showing impulse. Each on the other hand picks up one of the house and tries to fix it, before kuzco knocks it out of his hand, showing that Pach knows what Kuzco is doing is wrong and that he is thinking about the effect on society that it will have. because part of the superegos traits is that, it's moral guidelines are based on society and trying to fit to society needs. You could also say that there clothing helps show the personality traits that they represent like Kuzco is wearing red and gold, the gold showing that he is selfsish and greedy like the ID, with he red showing that he is wrongly influenced not fully evil but defiantly bad. Pacha not he other hand is wearing green and brown, colours that are Earthy and green is though of to be a happy colour, it shows that he tries to be as moral as he can by making everyone (society) happy.



In this film Kronk is the Ego as he makes most of the decisions, sometimes with moral difficulty, as he is shown to be in charge of most of the designs leading to Kuzcos fate. This is clear in the scene where Kuzco is in a bag about to fall down a waterfall and Kronk has an angle and a devil pop up on his shoulders. The angle and the devil are what i believe to be the secondary Id and Superego as both characters are arguing and trying to make points for Kronk to either save Kuzco or let him die, as the Devil aka the ID is telling Kronk to walk away and mentions the reward of Ezma becoming empress, however the Angle wants to save him setting up the moral guidelines of right and wrong for Kronk.. This is not the only time in this film that these two characters appear on Kronks shoulders. This shows that Kronk is the ego, dealing with he reality of the situation he is put in and trying to balance the ID and superego.