CHAPTER II UNDERLYING THEORY
The theory used in this chapter is psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud; there is a relation between literary work and psychologies. This chapter is divided
into four parts namely notion of psychoanalysis, structure of personality, anxiety and theoretical application.
A. Notion of Psychoanalysis
Sigismund Schlomo Freud was well-known as Sigmund Freud. He is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind. He was born on May 6,
1856 and died in September 23, 1939. He was a Czech Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
Freud, Sigmund in http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiSigmund_Freud. Psychoanalysis is “a technique to investigate an indiv
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ual‟s unconscious thought and feelings.” Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992: 86. This
statement also support by Freudian, which explain that psychoanalysis is a specific type of treatment. It is describes the taught includes dream, fantasies
which causes
unconscious feeling.
http:en.wikipedia.orgwiki Psychoanalysis.
According to Freud in Feist, 1985: 22, the unconscious is the only explanation for the meaning behind dreams slips of the tongue, neurotic
symptoms, and certain kinds of forgetting called repression. For example, a child has a dream to become a pres
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that conscious feeling of mind: the conscious is a level to enter the conscious. Sexual and aggressive tendencies were often become unconscious through the
process of repression. Repression is the forcing of unwanted, anxiety-r
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den experiences into the unconscious in order to defend the person against the pain
of that anxiety Feist, 1985: 22. Unconscious is div
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ed into three concepts, the descriptive unconscious, the dynamic unconscious and the system unconscious. The
descriptive unconscious contains of all the characteristic of mental life. The dynamic unconscious is more specific construct it refers to mental processes
and contents to survive from consciousness as the result of conflicting attitudes. The system unconscious denoted the
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ea that when mental processes are repressed it different from those of the conscious mind, such as
condensation and displacement. Boesky D. in http: en.wikipedia.org wiki Psychoanalysis.
B. Structure of Personality
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