From all the situations, the writer can take the conclusion that the Id portrayed in Charlie’s personality in the novel, is raised by the desires to satisfy Charlie’s
feeling because of angers, and also a sense of selfishness all this time. This is because the Id is driven by the pleasure principle, which strives for immediate
gratification of all desires, wants, and needs. If these needs are not satisfied immediately, the result is a state anxiety or tension. Briefly, Id is the primitive area,
chaotic, and unreachable by the conscious mind. Id is unwilling to be changed, immoral, illogical, messy, and full of energy that come from basic impulses and
devoted solely to satisfy the pleasure principle. The desire to the high aspirations eventually make the Id, the Ego, and the SuperEgo intertwined with each other in the
conflict and contradiction.
4.2. Charlie’s Ego.
The Ego of Charlie shows up when he is faced with the bad situation by hurting Sean in his first year of high school. The libido drives the Ego when Charlie
suddenly realizes that what he does is something that he really needs to do. The Ego of Charlie has brought him into a reality feeling after he hit Sean in front of the
crowds in his school. The libido brings Charlie into an anxiety feeling at that time, and the Ego directly receives the impulse which before has been brought by the Id
without any thinking the impacts that can happened for Charlie himself or even for anybody.
It shows as follows:
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I just dont understand why Sean wanted to hurt me. I didnt do anything to him. I am very small. Thats
true. Stephen Chbosky, 1999: 7
The incident actually happens for any reasons. This is because Charlie as a freshman has been queit most of the time, where that attitude has extracted Sean’s
attention to Charlie. The bad intention of Sean is the reason why Charlie decides to start hurting Sean first before the boy does that. This can be said that here, the libido
has controlled the Id and the Ego of Charlie. Eventhough the libido has controlled Charlie’s SuperEgo to feel sorry by crying after he hit Sean, but the fact and the
reality principle of the Ego comes along to make Charlie feels that Sean deserves to get hurt because Charlie is being pretty emosional and angry.
It shows as follows: Some kids look at me strange in the hallways
because I dont decorate my locker, and Im the one who beat up Sean and couldnt stop crying after he
did it. I guess Im pretty emotional.
Stephen Chbosky, 1999: 7
The Ego of Charlie accesses himself according to the SuperEgo, trying to think morally by using the SuperEgo to be satisfied. From the quoting above, it
shows that the SuperEgo of Charlie comes to bring Charlie’s mind into the moral feeling, he realizes that this is not the real him, but the situation makes him must do
it, he really needs to hit Sean for the sake of defending himself from Sean who intends to hurt Charlie first. But as the writer said before, something happens for a
reason and it will also be the impacts for Charlie himself and for other people.
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Because of the incident, Charlie causes Sean gets hurt. The impacts for Charlie himself is he could just be suspended from his school.
The Ego here is being so realistic of the incident, eventhough he feels sorry by crying a lot, but he eventually feels that it must be done. The self-defense actually
makes Charlie’s Ego does this. The incident makes Charlie who is using the Ego is under the ethical standards of his SuperEgo, makes this kind of nature be destroyed
completely under the conscious state of SuperEgo that is full of sorry and ideal, and also makes the Id, Ego and SuperEgo intertwine with each other again in conflict and
contradiction. Charlie’s resistance can only be a manifestation of the Ego, and repression puts into practice at the beginning. It makes the Ego be reflected from the
Id, and SuperEgo is involved in Ego, this is because they still want to keep being suppressed. These three factors interact with each other to make Charlie depressed,
and becomes a person who seem radical and rude because of his anger. Related to the Ego which indicates a neutral side and seeing facts to
demonstrate the facts in every action and decision made by Charlie as reflected in the novel, this is something that Charlie must do to balancing between pleasure in the
negativity side of Id and pleasure in positive side of the SuperEgo. Then the Ego of Charlie still looks so clear in the next incident that shows his selfishness.
Charlie is faced by the reality and the fact that he is in love with Sam, nobody and nothing can change his feeling towards Sam. When he decides to kiss Sam in
front of Mary Elizabeth on a truth or dare game that Patrick has set. Charlie consciously decides to choose dare, that is when Patrick asks Charlie to kiss the
prettiest girl in the room, and here the libido brings Charlie’s mind into a bad
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situation. The incident then brings Charlie to use his Ego because of the willing to be honest toward his love to Sam.
It shows in the following statement: I could also say that I had forgotten the time Mary
Elizabeth asked me if I thought she was pretty. But I would be lying. The truth is that when Patrick dared
me, I knew that if I kissed Mary Elizabeth, I would be lying to everyone. Including Sam. Including
Patrick. Including Mary Elizabeth. And I just couldnt do it anymore. Even if it was part of a game.
Stephen Chbosky, 1999: 140-141
The quoting above shows that the fact of being in love to Sam brings Charlie tries to think neutrally in taking the decision in this situation. Eventhough it can
impact to someone gets hurt, which here is Mary Elizabeth as his girlfriend, but also can be the impact for Charlie. The original desire is vented with in a way of anxiety.
The anxiety is in the Ego which drives Charlie to seek a way out by being honest and kiss Sam although he knows that it is not a good idea to do. In a number of factors,
Charlie chooses empathy of being honest, and this instinctive sense of empathy comes from the unconscious state of the Ego. From the pshychology side, it can be
said that Charlie is being careless but also neutral in the same time. Because he thinks that being honest is better than hold lies inside, where it will torture from
inner. Lie is lie, but it will never be good if we still keep the lies inside without express the lies into the truth, which it can hurt ourselves or even others.
And after all of the processes that have been explained by the writer, it can be said that the Ego has been relieved slightly at this time and it entered the SuperEgo
state of Charlie. So it can take the concluison that Ego is the only region of the mind which has contact with the reality. Id and Ego evolved from being the only source to
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communicate with the outside world. When running as the cognitive and intellectual function, the Ego must considers between several of Id’s pleasure impulses and the
moral impulses of the SuperEgo. Although the Ego here may sounds like the decision – maker, or the executive of personality, but the Ego is weaker than the
metaphor of executive implies. Charlie begins to understand and overcome his anxiety with bad things, then
he should try to learn to know that in taking the decision, we can not just merely follow the desires and impulses that are coming from the negative side pleasure
principle, but should also see it from the positive side moral principle.
4.3. Charlie’s SuperEgo.
