More than a decade before Freud published his ideas about the conscious, subconscious, and preconscious, and around 30 years before he developed his id, superego, and ego ideas, the short novel “The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson was published, in which the same ides were presented. Dr. Jekyll creates a concoction that brings forth in him the personification of what Freud called the id, Mr. Hyde. While Dr. Jekyll is a rational man, Mr. Hyde is his nasty, cruel, violent side. As time progresses Hyde grows in power and no longer needs the potion to come out and soon he would be unable to change back to Jekyll. The id had overcome the superego. This a thrilling example of the inner conflict between good and evil and what probably everyone faces in themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpnqy7iHzI
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