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He caught a glimpse of his wedding band pressed on her ribs. Another pang to his chest. The thought of Haley started gnawing at him, but he couldn’t stop the feathering of his fingertips on Emily’s warm skin. Her words echoed in his mind, pulling his thoughts backwards to a Psych class he took in college: In Freud’s theories the id, ego, and superego are the three components of the human psyche that work together to create a personality. The id is the primitive, instinctual part driven by the pleasure principle. The ego is the rational, conscious mediator between the id and external reality. The superego is the internalized moral conscience, developed from societal and parental standards, which aims to impose guilt for bad behavior.
Emily represented his Id, while Haley was his Superego. Emily had resuscitated a part of him he’d long suppressed, his primal urges becoming unbearable in her presence, but Haley was who he was supposed to be, how he wanted to be perceived. He couldn’t function with one and not the other. He needed both.or, the one in which Aaron goes to one of Emily's parties and ends up cheating on his wife.