The ego ideal’s primary interest pertains to what I sight and virtuous. It holds up an image of ideals behavior and perfection and says “yes” to morality dood thing.
Conscience, on the other hand, watches primarily over what is bad. It says “no” to wishes that are morally wrong. Indeed, it attempts to censor impulses from the id and
prevent them entering the consciousness of the ego. According to Freud, we are born with our id. The id is an important part of
our personality because as newborns, it allows us to get our basic needs met. Freud believed that the id is based on our pleasure principle. In other words, the id wants
whatever feels good at the time, with no consideration for the reality of the child cries. When the child needs to be changed, the id cries.
2.5 The Conflict between Ego and Id
Internal conflict between Ego and Id is cause by a person trying to disown his or her dark side or Id which is the aspect of ourselves that we have repressed or
rejected because we have come to believe that it is unacceptable to those around us. In order for us to adapt to and become part of society, we each must create an
ego. Ego development depends on our repressing what is wrong or bad in us, while we identify with what is perceived and reinforced as good by our parents, siblings,
caretakers, and other important sources of love and support. This helps us to eliminate the anxiety caused by our fear of our parents’ rejection and to gain the
approval of those we care most about. This process of growing an ego continues throughout the first half of life and is modified by external influences and
experiences as each of us moves out into the world.
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The Id as the dark side, is a natural by-product of the ego building process. Because of the necessarily one-sided nature of ego development, the neglected,
rejected, and unacceptable qualities in a person accumulate in the unconscious psyche and take form as an inferior personality—the personal Shadow. This
disowned part of the self eventually becomes a mirror image of the ego. We disown that which does not fit into our developing picture of who we are, thus creating a Id.
What is disowned, however, does not go away. It lives on within each person—out of sight, out of mind, but nevertheless real—an unconscious alter ego
hiding just below the threshold of awareness. Those who feel they had to disown or repress many aspects of themselves in order to be accepted by their parents or society
in general will have very large Id. Ego and Id are therefore in an age-old battle, well known in mythology and
literature—opposing twins or brothers, one good, the other evil—symbolic representations of the ego and alter ego in psychological development. Taken
together, these twins, or opposites, form a whole. In the same way, when the ego assimilates the disowned self, a person moves toward wholeness.
Furthermore, the id and ego balance also influence by internal conflict of self. The most common conflict, experienced by most people at some time in their lives,
is the conflict between the public self and the private self. The public self is the persona we show to the world—the social self. The social self is the side that is
concerned with how others perceive us, what impression we make on others, what others think of us. The private self includes our innermost thoughts and feelings, our
personal opinion of ourselves, our beliefs about ourselves, and our self-talk. Oftentimes, our private and public selves are at odds with each other. We exhibit one
set of behaviors when we are in public and another when we are in private. Or we
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may feel good about ourselves when we are alone with our own thoughts and feelings but feel insecure and even critical of ourselves when we are with other
people. The reverse can also be true—we can appear self-confident when we are in public but privately agonize over our self-worth when we are alone with ourselves.
We all have a public self—which we portray to others in order to look good or to meet their expectations. Yet some people create a public self that is so radically
different from their private or real self that those who know them only superficially would be shocked if they were to get to know the real private person.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
In this thesis, the writer applies the library research by searching and collecting references that contain and support the topic from library and internet for
accomplishing this analysis. The writer collects some relevant information from difference books.
In order to analyze the character of Dr. Jekyll, the writer used extrinsic approach. The writer related this thesis to psychology as well for the writer knows
that psychology is the study of mind and behavior and it will help the writer to find out the answer that formulated in the objective of this study by applying the
psychoanalytic theories and the general concept of character to support the ideas. In doing this thesis the writer uses some steps as follows:
3.1. Data Collecting Procedure
