I'm not certain that the Freudian ideas are at play with the Tanks as much as good old fashioned fictional archetypes which, as has been suggested, ring closer to Jung than Freud.
PLD is pretty much yoinked from D&D, which in turn took old historical archetypes and tried to fit them into a setting in which faith has frequent and incredibly obvious effects in the observable world. We can say that SE took ideas from WoW, but I am not in the business of giving credit to WoW for stuff they also yoinked.
WAR also has roots in the D&D Barbarian, which in term draws a good deal from the Conan mythos. Its physical appearance/armor in FFXIV draws also from a smattering of different warrior cultures. The "rage-fueled warrior" concept is likewise prevalent in many other fantasy settings and sources, as well as what I might call "popular history."
DRK could be said to draw from a number of sources. The Elric novels come to mind, and perhaps it isn't a coincidence that so many people see DRK as fantasy Batman. The class also is directly analogous to the similar class in WoW, the Reaver class in Rift, and the Dark Templar in Age of Conan.
To address the Freud question very simply, from one layman to another, the Id would be comparable to "animal instinct", those drives which are directly related to survival, hunger, reproduction, and fulfilling a person's desires, no matter what other cost. The Superego is analogous to conscience, and would be composed or the moral absolutes and social behaviors which one's society deems as "good" or "virtuous", and it exists as a counterpoint to the Id. The Ego is the go-between, which filters the demands of Id and Superego and decides which of them to act upon in any given situation; it is, in essence, the "mind" as we would most think of it, which seeks to promote the social and physical health and desires of the whole person in balance.
So, while the scientific aspects of Freud are considered outdated, they do tie heavily into a lot of philosophy, fiction and western archetypes, as others above have said. In simplest terms, think to the angel and devil on one's shoulder in TV commercials and a lot of simple stories, and you have the most basic legacy of the ideas discussed here.
As for literary theories.... speaking as someone who navigated several courses of the stuff, and the level of posturing that exists among so many of these theories, I'd say that you really don't wanna know unless you're the type that, like me, can't resist taking stories apart to see how and why they work or don't
PLD is pretty much yoinked from D&D, which in turn took old historical archetypes and tried to fit them into a setting in which faith has frequent and incredibly obvious effects in the observable world. We can say that SE took ideas from WoW, but I am not in the business of giving credit to WoW for stuff they also yoinked.
WAR also has roots in the D&D Barbarian, which in term draws a good deal from the Conan mythos. Its physical appearance/armor in FFXIV draws also from a smattering of different warrior cultures. The "rage-fueled warrior" concept is likewise prevalent in many other fantasy settings and sources, as well as what I might call "popular history."
DRK could be said to draw from a number of sources. The Elric novels come to mind, and perhaps it isn't a coincidence that so many people see DRK as fantasy Batman. The class also is directly analogous to the similar class in WoW, the Reaver class in Rift, and the Dark Templar in Age of Conan.
To address the Freud question very simply, from one layman to another, the Id would be comparable to "animal instinct", those drives which are directly related to survival, hunger, reproduction, and fulfilling a person's desires, no matter what other cost. The Superego is analogous to conscience, and would be composed or the moral absolutes and social behaviors which one's society deems as "good" or "virtuous", and it exists as a counterpoint to the Id. The Ego is the go-between, which filters the demands of Id and Superego and decides which of them to act upon in any given situation; it is, in essence, the "mind" as we would most think of it, which seeks to promote the social and physical health and desires of the whole person in balance.
So, while the scientific aspects of Freud are considered outdated, they do tie heavily into a lot of philosophy, fiction and western archetypes, as others above have said. In simplest terms, think to the angel and devil on one's shoulder in TV commercials and a lot of simple stories, and you have the most basic legacy of the ideas discussed here.
As for literary theories.... speaking as someone who navigated several courses of the stuff, and the level of posturing that exists among so many of these theories, I'd say that you really don't wanna know unless you're the type that, like me, can't resist taking stories apart to see how and why they work or don't
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