Originally posted by: -Sookie-
<font color="#990033">Very interesting observation!
The classical Freudian psychic apparatus Id-Ego-Super Ego does seem to apply to Maan (Geet is only the influencing factor in the whole situation and does not exactly partake in it) but I personally feel that Maan's psyche is much more complex and the situation itself has too many caveats to generalize them under this theory.
Maan, has been shown as a person who is resistance to change. He has the traditional anti-change syndrome which is not that uncommon in our conservative society. The influence Geet has on him makes him react to things differently than what he would have preferred to. It would have been interesting to see (I am not sure if this has already been shown) if the changes he thinks he is going through happens only when she is around or its an overall effect on him because of his long association with her.
However going by the current argument (Id-Ego-Super Ego) it might have been the super ego on his part to be the person resistant to changes. His past which is not at all explored till date (Example - his reasons to live in out house, his perpetual anger, behaving like a jerk sometimes and also a misogynist?) can also be the reason for him to behave the way he is behaving now, is it not?
Id, thankfully, has not always been the driving factor for their relationship; at least it was not how it started. The primal attraction which a man feels towards a woman was completely missing in the beginning. Geet's attitude, her words and her decisions makes him think about his own perspective and slowly tries to imbibe her principles on to his, only to understand her better.
Actually he refuses to understand her in the start and merely tries to get work done. His ego does not allow him to show the concern that a human should feel for another and that would be the reason why he does not help her when he meets her for the first time. And then the natural instinct kicks in and saves her from the river. But he does not show empathy which anyone in his place would. This trait in him slowly changes over the course of time.
The man who once saves the woman (in Amritsar) because he would not want unnecessary complications if she were to get hurt, gets restless to see the same woman walking straight to the door and banging her head in the process. It is not the id speaking here but the mellowed down ego.
I wish the series tries something like lift scene again in future which would show the confusion and the complexity of Maan's psyche. Also if a little background on his past is shown his behavior can perhaps be better understood.
Sookie.
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