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Pi’s shift in lifestyle from civilization to animalistic survival throughout Yann Martel's Life of Pi parallels his shift in personality from philosophical to primal ways, his ego shifting its accustomed reactions from Superego to Id-ish ways.

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Pi thinks of preservation and self control.

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Pi thinks of preservation and self control.

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“Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect?” (68).

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Pi thinks rationally to adapt to his surroundings using his Superego mentality.

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Pi thinks rationally to adapt to his surroundings using his Superego mentality.

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“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it” (115).

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Pi bestows pity and humanity onto Richard Parker.

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Pi bestows pity and humanity onto Richard Parker.

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“Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good it is to see you, Richard Parker…he looked small and helpless” (121).

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Pi is unchallenged by the pains of hunger.

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Pi is unchallenged by the pains of hunger.

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“I could have leaned down and grabbed it, a large sea turtle…I said to it, ‘Go tell a ship I’m here’” (123).

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Pi holds onto his last bit of civilization and Superego morals.

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Pi holds onto his last bit of civilization and Superego morals.

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“It…soothed me. I was so sorely in need of company and company that the attention brought to making each one of these mass-produced goods felt like a special attention” (144-145).

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Pi's lifestyle quickly changes from civilization to companionless survival as fast as the oceans interchange.

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Pi's lifestyle quickly changes from civilization to companionless survival as fast as the oceans interchange.

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“Sometime later, with a suddenness emphasized by the silence that followed, the rain stopped…the change was as quick and radical as changing countries on land. I was now in a different ocean” (159).

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Pi speaks of Richard Parker's adaptability parallel to himself.

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Pi speaks of Richard Parker's adaptability parallel to himself.

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“They are amazingly adaptable” (165).

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Pi depends on Richard Parker for life, learning from his untamed Id-ish ways.

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Pi depends on Richard Parker for life, learning from his untamed Id-ish ways.

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“ It seemed Richard Parker was such a magnetic pole of life, so charismatic in his vitality, that other expressions of life found it intolerable” (170).

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“My suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant…my suffering did not fit anywhere…how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things?” (177).

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Pi begins to accept Id and animalistic ways in desperation of survival.

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Pi begins to accept Id and animalistic ways in desperation of survival.

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“A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood between me and the willful beheading of a fish…I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul…I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands” (183).

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“I couldn’t control myself” (198).

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“It came as an unmistakable indication to me of how low I had sunk …that I ate like an animal, that this noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down of mine was exactly the way Richard Parker ate” (225).

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Pi allows primal instinct to save his life-- even if that means ending others's.

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Pi allows primal instinct to save his life-- even if that means ending others's.

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“It was them or me…Instinct, it’s called instinct…the definition of an animal. That’s all you are” (247).

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Pi loses Superego's innocence when he follows Id.

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Pi loses Superego's innocence when he follows Id.

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“This was the terrible cost of Richard Parker. He gave me life, my own, but at the expense of taking one…Something in me died then that has never come back to life” (255).

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Pi regains humane behavior of Superego once reintroduced to civilization.

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Pi regains humane behavior of Superego once reintroduced to civilization.

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“Would you like some cookies for the road?...goodbye. G-d be with you, my brothers” (318).

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Pi, over the course of his journey, has become animalistic and dependent on his primal Id instincts to survive. Once a thoughtful vegetarian, Pi has transformed into an impulsive creature acting on whatever means survival. He realizes "how low I (Pi) had sunk" in response to the situation, eating ravenously "like an animal... (Pi's) noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down of mine was exactly the way Richard Parker ate" (225). Pi is a changed character and the shrunken Superego dwindling inside his brain uses the last of its strength to remind him so. His unfortunate journey has forced him to adapt in order to survive, no longer resisting animalistic ways in favor of salvaging any bit of life left inside his body.