Word: superego
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With a working knowledge of the superego, oral fixations and daddy complexes, MONICA LEWINSKY seems well equipped for her next endeavor. The world's most infamous intern will begin a master's program in social psychology at the London School of Economics next month. Since her affair with President Bill Clinton modified both their career arcs, Lewinsky has busied herself designing a line of handbags, serving as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman and offering dating advice on a reality show. Maybe she can do her thesis on the damaging effect fame has on the ability to find a vocation...
...people outgrow,” says Labrie, one of four authors who analyzed data from a 2001 national study of college student gambling habits conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. “It may have something to do with development of the brain—the superego, the part that makes decisions, grows a little more slowly...
Romano is Jackie Gleason with updated wife-management techniques, having replaced threats of violence with pathetic groveling. While Romano's superego is sensitive 21st century husband, his id is pure '50s. He just wants to eat, golf, watch sports, have sex and keep his wife from getting mad at him. Romano, 46, is even more uber-guy than his Ray Barone character on CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond. He likes to gamble so much that he placed a Super Bowl bet on how long Beyonce's rendition of the national anthem would take (thanks to some overhead planes...
...celebrities are our royalty, then there's a kind of Lioness in Winter drama to Real Roseanne. Big celebs--your Puffys, your Madonnas--inhabit a blissful zone in which their ids are perfectly in synch with pop culture's superego. Satisfying their whims (I'm going to make my new husband executive producer of my sitcom!) seems to be not self-indulgent but good business sense. When they slip out of that zone (I'm going to have my blue-collar sitcom character win the lottery!), the damage can be irreparable. That Barr's comeback plan involves slinging salsa...
Read this way, the network whodunit is like the mainstream post-9/11 superego, telling us that the system may make mistakes but it works. Evil is knowable, crime solvable, justice swift and attainable. The Wire and The Shield arrive like an unconscious (and just as American) response: It's O.K. to doubt, to question, to acknowledge the bad among the good. Decades of cop shows have schooled us on our Miranda rights, chief among them the right to remain silent. Cheers to these cable cops for exercising their right to make some noise...