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LIST OF TABLE
INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Reason for Choosing the Title
- Problem of The Research
- Scope of the Research
- Question of the Research
- Objectives of the Research
- Significance of the Research
The title of this research was the state of mental health of the main character in the novel Every Day by David Levithan. To find out the mental issue of the main character and how to understand a particular mental issue specifically in the novel Everyday by David Levithan.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Previous Studies
A psychoanalysis of the main character in Coelho's The Zahir is the title of the study. Rosadi et al., (2019) the conflict of the main character in the novels Nora and Cagak by Putu Wijaya Abstract.
Synopsis Every Day
Psychology
- Psychology and Literature
- Psychology of Personality
- Limited of Personality
- Certain Mental Condition Which Might Be Experienced by the Main Character
Psychology is the science of the soul, according to Hassan Shadily and her research regarding consciousness, sensation, idea, memory and other related topics. Literature deals with human imagination while psychology deals with the reality of circumstance. Greek The words psyche, meaning soul, and logos, meaning knowledge, were the origin of the English word psychology.
In other words, psychology is the study of human behavior or the study of the soul (Atkinson, 1996: 7). Conflicts within the personality structure result from the struggle between the id, the ego and the superego. Cotard's condition was associated with organic lesions of the non-dominant temporoparietal cortex, migraines and psychoses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
This condition can impact the lifestyle, social skills and daily activities of those affected. Delirium was a sudden change in the brain that caused the patient to experience severe confusion, decreased awareness of the environment, or sometimes a change in perception in the form of delusions of grandeur.
Sigmund Freud Theory
- Superego
To find out the true nature of people, it was necessary to observe the symbolic gestures and the deepest thoughts of man Minderop, (2010: 9). The following was an explanation of the structural components of level consciousness proposed by Sigmund Freud, namely:. From how it works, it can be understood that most of the ego's operational areas are in consciousness, but there was a small part of the ego that operated in the preconscious and unconscious areas.
The superego was the moral and ethical force of the personality which operates using the idealistic principle as opposed to the satisfaction principle of the Id and the realistic principle of the Ego. Each of these levels corresponds to and overlaps with his ideas of id, ego, and superego. The conscious mind contains all the thoughts, memories, feelings and desires that we are aware of at any given moment.
The conscious mind contains all the thoughts, memories, feelings, and desires that we are aware of at any given moment. Next, the analysis of affixes about the psychology of the main character in the novel Every Day by Levithan (2012:322) was studied.
METHODOLOGY
- Type of the Research
- Sources of Data
- Method of Collecting Data
- Method of Analyzing Data
Qualitative research was also described as a model that unfolds in a natural environment and allows the writer to develop a level of detail from a high degree of engagement with reality. This study used primary data from David Levithan's novel Every Day. Novel Every Day was published on August 28, 2012 by David Levithan and the publisher was Knopf Books for young readers and the genre was fantasy fiction and romance, and the secondary data was collected by the interviewer.
Starting with reviewing and collecting all the data from David Levithan's novel Every Day. Identify the words or phrases that contain the type of mental found in David Levithan's novel Every Day. Highlighting the words or sentences containing the type of mental that was issued and specifically understanding the specific mental conditions and then determining the pattern of consciousness and the state of id, ego and superego in David Levithan's novel Every Day using the Sigmund Freud theory.
The data analysis method aims to compile the data in a meaningful way and that it can be understood, the author would use study document and analytical method was used to analyze the condition of the main character in the novel Every Day by David Levithan to analyze. Second, grasp the specific mental states specifically and then determine the pattern of consciousness and the state of id, ego and superego in the novel Every Day by David Levithan using Sigmund Freud theory and the last step was to analyze the results of conclude the data analysis and formulate proposal for further author.
FINDING AND DISCUSSION
Findings
- Mental Health Issue
- Data 3 : Every day I am someone else, I am myself, I know I am my self but I am also
- Data 4 : it is hard hard being in the body you do not like
- Data 14 : I want to know more about three days ago
- Data 18 : The body fights back, my hand shakes, my visions blurs
- Data 22 : I wake up in the body of Megan powel
- Data 30 : they think depression is a simply of being sad, when I was child I did not
- Data 31 : I open my eyes and saw scars, not just the body the room as well, along the floor,
- Consciousness of Id, Ego, and Superego
- Data 32 : Rhiannon hesitation to kiss me
- Data 43 : I could not block out the temptation that Poole offered, if I could stay in this life
- Data 53 : Although I would prefer for it not to hurt
- Data 55 : And if I argue, I would get strange looks
This sentence suggested a delusion because the said main character resonates in my mind based on behavior. In the data sentence, the main character mentions that I am someone else, the sentence indicated DID because there was a disturbance. The mind of the main character is explained in the data. I could feel my mind fighting with my body.
The sentence showed how much the main character presented of many religious, many services. Based on the sentence, the main character showed the personality of a twin of James, I am his twin who had an appearance just like James but with a different habit. In the sentence, the main character had a new personality named Surita, she lived with 90-year-old grandmother who did not care.
In the sentence, the main character felt that it is not really bad, my self is not completely bad, although being a bad person would be done. In the data, the main character felt inexplicable pain because he did not fulfill his love that he wanted for Riannon, but I am not clear. In the sentence the main character said that you can be anyone describing himself can be anyone when he runs it was a form of ego consciousness.
In the sense, everything I do could break something, the main character tried to keep quiet, because when he speaks or moves.
Discussion
- Mental Health Issue a. Delusion
Based on the data produced by the writer and psychologist, Muhammad Risal, S.Psi concluded that the main character in the novel has an indicator of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Based on the table, the writer concluded that the main character has depression, data 30 was identified: According to the line that the main character has a mental illness such as depression, depressed people show special psychological and physical features. Clues 30, According to the line about the main character having a mental illness such as depression, depressed people usually exhibit special psychological and physical traits.
Data 43, the main character in the data was willing to experience suffering to embrace reality because the ego dealt with reality even when it hurt and tried to satisfy desires in a way that was socially acceptable. Data 44, the protagonist felt stupid for expecting Riannon to accept the character's statement immediately based on the word, even though he should have accepted this reality. Data 47, according to the facts just sit in my frame, the main character occasionally just sat there, hovering in a tank or driving a vehicle without uttering a word.
Data 54, the main character in the data remarked, to blame the devil then without blaming anyone, as people occasionally hold the devil responsible for the atrocities they have committed, this was an allegory for the superego. Fact 56, Based on the last data, we decide that no, the main character said that everyone has the potential to commit a crime, but they prefer not to, and this is the best reflection of the super.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
In this study author focuses only on the investigation of the mental health disorder by using DSM-5 to determine the dissociative disorder of the main character, and with the theory of Sigmund freud id, ego and superego. It is hoped that this research will have a beneficial impact on both the academic field and society in general. Author suggests that people should realize that it is important to understand mental illness, especially dissociative identity disorder, from the media as novels because there are still people out there who think of mental illness as a joke or even question its existence or not.
The author realizes that this research is still far from expectation ideal, and the author hopes that additional author could fill this void and increase the research, because it can contribute to the progress of science, especially the psychology of literature, of course, the author hopes that this research will help to support or complement the work of other academics studying relevant subjects. The weakness of this research, the author focused on investigating the main character's mental health issues and the level of awareness of id, ego and superego, in this novel the main character has a lot of personality, therefore other researchers could research the limited of the personality that is also included in the theory of literary psychology.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID LEVITHAN
In his career he has already achieved an award, 2003 Lamda Literary Award for Boy Meets Boy, 2006 Lamda Literary Award for the Full Spectrum Since publishing his first book, Boy Meets Boy, in 2003, David Levithan has made a contribution positive in the abnormal genre of novels. Levithan says that Boy Meets Boy is neither fantasy nor reality, but a novel about where we are going, and where we need to be, as a society.
