Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-3410511-20150201154502/@comment-10390252-20150202223114

I think that it is closer to the Freudean concept of the human psyche. Basically, the theory teaches that we are all made up by three elements:


 * Ego - The self-identity and awareness of our goals and ambitions;


 * Id - The underlying beast; our instinctive drive to survive and defeat opposition;


 * Superego - The 'higher self' of ethics and morals that often runs counter to and, in some ways, suppresses to the Ego and also moderates the instinctual and animalistic impulses of the Id.

In a healthy psyche, all three elements work together to a greater or lesser degree. However, when the Element of Magic was triggered, it seemed to totally suppress Sunset's Superego, turning her into a completely selfish and uncontrolled monster without any morality or ethics at all.

Now, the thing to remember is that this wasn't Sunset's real personality at all. It was a massively corrupted version of her, possibly being manifest as a kind of object lesson of just what sort of person she was letting herself become. All indications are that she's learnt her lesson and is now looking to other things than her own interests.