The Triumph
Title: The Triumph
Choreographer: Simran Timbadia
Dancers: Rhian Omnisore, Marie Finlayson, Isabel Masters
Music: Beat Of Passion - Taal
This piece showcases the triumph of good over evil. Indian mythology has always intrigued me and using this as my inspiration, my piece revolves around a story from the same. Most mythological stories revolve around a similar idea of truth and righteous prevail. In this piece, the Goddess is the symbol of good and truthfulness, whereas, the Ashura (Demon) is the symbol of evil and the tiger symbolizes unlimited power and her riding on the tiger defines that she possess unlimited power and uses it to protect positive virtues and destroy negative demons.
This piece shows the battle of ego and how the human mind always battles between the Id, Ego and Super - ego and the fact that we are constantly trying to find a balance between the Id and the Super-ego. All these three components need to be well - balanced in order to have a good amount of psychological energy and a reasonable mental health.
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Research on Goddess Durga vs. Demon
Once upon a time there lived a demon (Asura) named Mahisha. He found great happiness in hurting people. Once, he decided to pray to lord Brahma, who he thought would give him a boon, which would make him invincible.
Mahisha performed severe penances praying and fasting for months as he stood on one foot. The three worlds trembled under the strength of his penances and a pleased lord Brahma came to give him a boon. Mahisha asked for immortality, which the lord said he could not have as every creature that was born had to die. Mahisha decided that he would ask for a boon that would make him as good as immortal. He asked that no man should be able to kill and, if he had to die it should be only at the hands of only a woman. He was sure that no woman could ever fight against him however strong she may be.
Now that Mahisha was invincible, he and the other asuras went about hurting and killing everyone on earth and then went on to the heavens to fight the Gods. Even Indra's thunderbolt could not withstand the asura attack. Mahisha drove out the Gods and took over Indra's throne. Mahishasura started harassing all pious people who continued praying to Vishnu or Shiva. The Gods and people were depressed and decided to ask lord Shiva for help. Lord Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma concentrated hard and used their radiant energies, which were joined by the energies from Indra, and the other Gods. This godly energy took the form of a divine lady with thousand arms. In each arm she carried a weapon belonging to all Gods. This was Durga Devi.
She mounted a fiery lion and roared. It was a roar that shook mountains and created huge waves in the seas. Even Mahisha was worried for a second, but his vanity took over when he saw that the terrible form was that of a woman. Durga created a large army from her breath to fight Mahisha's army and then fought with Mahisha who came in the form of a Buffalo. As he struggled to set himself from the Buffalo form she killed him with her sword delivering the earth and heavens of the Burden called Mahishasura.
In Mysore (Karnataka) atop the Chamundi hills, you can see a big statue of Mahishasura. Here there is a temple dedicated to Durga also known as Mahishasura mardini or Chamundi.
Id, Ego and Superego
Freud's single most enduring and important idea was that the human personality has more than one aspect. Freud saw the personality structured into three parts, the id, ego and superego, all developing at different stages in our lives. Although each part of the personality comprises unique features, they interact to form a whole, and each part makes a relative contribution to an individual's behaviour.
The Id
The id is the primitive and instinctive component of the personality. It consists of all inherited (i.e. biological) components of the personality present at birth, including sex and the aggression/death instinct.
The id is the impulsive and unconscious part of the psyche which responds directly and immediately to instincts.
The Ego
The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world. It the decision making component of the personality. The ego considers social relatives and norms, etiquettes and rules in deciding how to behave. Like the id, the ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain. The ego has no concept of right or wrong: something is good simply if it achieves its end satisfaction without causing harm to itself or to the id.
The Superego
The superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learned from one's parents and others. The superego's function is to control the id's impulses, especially those which the society forbids, such as sex and aggression. It also has the function of persuading the ego to turn to moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones and to strive for perfection. The superego consists of two systems: the conscience and the ideal self.
The conscience can punish ego through causing feelings of guilt.
The ideal self is an imaginary picture of how you ought to be and represent career aspirations and how to behave as a member of society.