The animals all gather. Now the animals are also Id
Representations from the Freudian perspective, and the Id is the part of your psyche, from the Freudian perspective, that's animalistic and and and full of
implicit drives, sexual and aggressive in particular, as far as Freud was concerned,
and that's because those two drives, say unlike thirst or hunger, are much more difficult to integrate
into proper social being and tend to be excluded and left unconscious. And so a lot of Freudian psychology,
and I would say psychology in general is,
focused on the integration of sexual impulses and aggressive impulses into the psyche.
I would also add to that anxiety, because anxiety is also a major problem, anxiety and negative emotion
that's pain like, is also a major problem for people. And so the animals represent those Id-like impulses that have to be organized hierarchically
before you can become an integrated being and precisely the piagetian manner right because Piaget would say well the child comes into the world with
reflexes and maybe a more modern psychologist would also
concentrate on the implicit motivations
And those have to be organized inside the child into some kind of hierarchy of unity before the child can organize him or herself
Into the broader unity of the state and that's basically what's being represented here and so
So Zazu the eyes of the king comes to check out the king and that's uh what's his name?
What's the King's name?
Mufasa yeah, and he's a very regal looking person
Lion and he stands up straight and tall and that means that he's high in serotonin because serotonin governs
postural flexion
and if so if you're dominant and near the top of
Hierarchies you tend to expand so that you look bigger than
than you could if you shrunk down, and so if you're low dominant person you wander around like this so that you look small and
Weak, and you don't pose a threat to anybody
But if you're at the top you expand yourself so that you can command the space and that's why he has that particular
kind of regal posture
And if you look at his facial expression you see that it's quite severe. Like he's he's capable of kindness,
but he's also harsh and judgmental, and that's what society is like, that's what the super-ego is like. And what that means is that he's
integrated his aggression
And I've seen this happen in my clinical clients, when they come in and they're too agreeable. They look like
Simba looks later in the movie when he's an adolescent and he's sort of like a deer in headlights
Everything is coming in and nothing is coming out
But when the person integrates their shadow and gets the aggressive part of themselves integrated into their personality their faces harden.
And if you look at people you can tell,
because the people who are too agreeable look childlike and innocent and the people who well a hyper aggressive
person will look you know mean and cruel but uh
Let's see if that's good
That's still working. So uh, but I've seen people's face changes change face change in the course of therapy
Men and women so and what happens is they start to look more mature,
and it's it's more like they're they're judging the world as well as
Interacting with it properly once they integrate that more disagreeable part of them. It's very very necessary and that's part of the
incorporation of the Jungian shadow or the incorporation of the unconscious from a Freudian perspective, but old Musa Musafa there he's already got that
He's already got that covered
So and he's capable of, like obviously he can smile, and he's full
capable of the full range of expressions, but he's a tough looking character
