# Disney 50's educational short: id, ego, superego

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**Created:** [September 9, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-50s-educational-short-id-ego-superego/668373 "2013-09-09T01:27:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-50s-educational-short-id-ego-superego/668373/1 "2013-09-09T01:27:57Z")

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Google yeilds nothing with my hook baited with the thread title, but I do recall it being in Disney style. A baby has a caveman in his head, then when he’s older has the caveman and a puritanical scold both in his head, driving him like a car. Later he meets a girl, and she has a 50’s bobbysoxer and a prim spinster driving her.

Anyone else remember this rare foray (June Foray?) by Walt into Freudian theory?

- Besides his examination of Freudian fixation on the buttocks: every single one of his other cartoons.

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-50s-educational-short-id-ego-superego/668373/2 "2013-09-09T04:07:45Z")

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Google yeilds nothing with my hook baited with the thread title, but I do recall it being in Disney style. A baby has a caveman in his head, then when he’s older has the caveman and a puritanical scold both in his head, driving him like a car. Later he meets a girl, and she has a 50’s bobbysoxer and a prim spinster driving her.
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> Anyone else remember this rare foray (June Foray?) by Walt into Freudian theory?
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> - Besides his examination of Freudian fixation on the buttocks: every single one of his other cartoons.

I believe the cartoon you’re thinking of is the 1943 Walt Disney anti-Nazi short [**Reason and Emotion**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1BPHa6HVGM). Later, Disney recycled the non-propaganda portion of the short for a Ludwig Von Drake episode of the “Wonderful World of Disney” about psychology which is where most people saw it.

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-50s-educational-short-id-ego-superego/668373/3 "2013-09-09T09:29:59Z")

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Yes, that is where I saw it. Thanks. Interesting how he’s obsessed by sex and she by food.