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… We should not be surprised to find distinctly ‘Freudian’

concepts under the surface of this set-up.

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Freud’s ‘Oedipal Complex’, after all, was derived from

a Greek Tragic Play current in the Fifth Century BC.

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George is ‘Ich’, the ‘I’, or Ego.

His parents are ‘Uber Ich’, the ‘Over I’, or Super Ego.

The dragon is ‘Das Es’, the ‘It’, or Id.

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The ‘Witch-of-the Wood’ is the Shadow in the subconscious mind

where the Id is forced to reside.

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The Ego and Super Ego reside in the conscious mind.

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The Ego is predominantly subjective.

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The Super Ego is predominantly objective.

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Under ‘normal circumstances’ the Ego and Super Ego

subdue the Id, moulding it to societal demands

and creating an eidolon, or false image, to satisfy the status quo.

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In the case of the Hero,

the Ego ‘kills’, or overcomes, the Super Ego,

and is then ‘swallowed’, or taken into

the subconscious mind where it encounters the Id…

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This was the ‘subconscious fear’,

or ‘prophetic dream’, of the Super Ego,

which intuitively recognises its child as the Id, or dragon.

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‘Fire should guard fire!’

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But what happens next?