MINNIE’S IMBALANCE PERSONALITY AS MANIFESTED IN HER DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN PHOEBE GLOECKNER’S THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

Sa'diyah, Nur Astuti (2017) MINNIE’S IMBALANCE PERSONALITY AS MANIFESTED IN HER DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN PHOEBE GLOECKNER’S THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This research is an application of Freud’s psychoanalysis theory to Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The aims of this study are to reveal the trigger of Minnie’s imbalance personality and to scrutinize the relation between Minnie’s imbalance personality and its manifestation as shown in her delinquent behavior and increased sexual pleasure-seeking drives. This study is a qualitative research. Content analysis method was employed to analyze the data. The object of this study was a hybrid novel which contains both of words and graphic illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner entitled The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The forms of the data of this study were expressions in words and pictures related to imbalance personality of Minnie which taken from the novel. The data collection was conducted by comprehensively reading the data and taking some notes of the important words and pictures expression related to the topic. The data were observed by using psychoanalysis theory from Sigmund Freud, focusing on the organization of personality, mainly in the domination of the id within the system of personality. In order to come to the trustworthiness of the data, the researcher applied proof-reading methods. The findings of the research show that Minnie’s imbalance system of personality is caused by the domination of the id. Her parents’ twice marital divorces which makes her lack of love and affection stimulates her id to seek for pleasure and to reduce the pain through delinquency such as having sexual activity to older men and girl of her age, stealing, engaging to drugs, and getting drunk. Minnie neglects the superego’s state of morality; she keeps pursuing pleasure in an inappropriate way. Keywords: delinquent behavior, psychoanalysis, the imbalance system of personality, the domination of the id, The Diary of a Teenage Girl.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords: delinquent behavior, psychoanalysis, the imbalance system of personality, the domination of the id, The Diary of a Teenage Girl.
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited: 28 Aug 2017 01:49
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2019 14:58
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/52456

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