The theories of Sigmund Freud, the creepy uncle of psychology, are mostly bunk except for the proposal that the psyche could be divided into three parts: Id, super-ego, and Ego (and it’s only true if you replace “psyche” with “Mandy’s shelves”).
The id is known as the child-like portion of the psyche that is very impulsive and only takes into account what it wants and disregards all consequences. This is the teen Mandy shelf, which is cluttered with superfluous dolphins, stuffed animals or pictures of only her intimate world. The only thing demonstrating a connection to the broader outside world is a pin-up of Clay Aiken.
The super-ego is the moral code of the psyche that solely follows right and wrong and takes into account no special circumstances in which the morally right thing may not be right for that situation. This is the Precious Moments shelf, which has meticulously arranged porcelain baby angels, glass animals, or delicate things related to Jesus. Everything on this shelf represents all the good things in the world and is not to be touched or broken.
Lastly, the ego is the balance between the id and the super-ego. After the super-ego and id are balanced, the ego acts in a way that takes both impulses and morality into consideration. This is the country home shelf, which takes the relaxed whimsy of stuffed animals from the id and the self-aware decoration of the super-ego. This shelf knows that we all are different and fallible, but there are some basic human rules that are somehow inherently related to quilts.
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brilliant.
Tammy definitely has a shelf devoted to figurines, too, it is just filled with Looney Tunes and Nascar knicknacks rather than precious moments figurines.
And wolves walking through the snow.
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