Psychology of literature Emotional intelligence on main character in we were soldiers film

successful teamwork by using Daniel Goleman leadership theory. It can be taken after watching the film. Psychology 1. Introduction to psychology Psychology is the one of human study seen from the aspects of their mind and behavior. “Psychology” is derived from two Greek words; those are psychos that means mind or soul and logos that means science. 6 Psychology is as a discipline science that specific to study human behavior have many space is that quite wide in field and in human behavior. Generally, psychology is defined as the science that of human behavior. 7 From two statements above we may know that psychology concern to their life that focuses on their mind and attitude.

2. Psychology of literature

Psychology of literature is the study of literature using literary work as the object of psyche action. Author will use anything in hisher inner side in creating literary works. The author will seize hisher psyche indication and processing it into the text. And the projection of the author experience will be projected imaginarily into the text. Literary work is seen as psychology phenomenon. It will show psyche aspects through characters in the story. According to Jatman: 6 Thomas K. Landauer, Psychology: A Brief overview, United States of America: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1972. p.2 7 Norman L. Munn, L. Dodge Fenald JR., Peter S. Fernald, Introduction to Psychology, 2 nd ed., United States of America: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. p.4. “Karya sastra dan psikologi memang memiliki pertautan yang erat, secara tak langsung dan fungsional. Pertautan tak langsung, karena baik psikologi dan sastra memiliki objek yang sama yaitu kehidupan manusia. Psikologi dan sastra memiliki hubungan fungsional karena sama-sama untuk mempelajari keadaan jiwa orang lain, bedanya dalam psikologi gejala tersebut riil, sedangkan dalam sastra bfersifat imajinatif”. 8 “literary works and psychology indeed have connectionthat bound indirectly and functionally. The indirect bound caused either psychology and literary works have the same object which is human life. Psychology and literary have functional connection because both learning other people psycho. The difference in the symptoms of that psychology is real, whereas, in literature has an imaginative character There are some assumptions of psychology of literature; first, there is judgement of literary work as the product of author mind and psyche in subconscious situation and revealing it into the text in conscious situation. Conscious and subconscious always affect the author imagination processing. Strength of literary work can be seen by how the author could reveal hisher unconscious psyche expression into the text. Second, psychology of literature also analyzes the author aspects of mind and feeling. It is about how the author able to depict characters of hisher work. Exploring Emotional Intelligence 1. Emotion and Emotional Intelligence An emotion is a mental and psychological state associated with a wide variety of feeling, thoughts, and behavior. Talking about emotion is not released 8 Suwardi Endaswara, Metodology Penelitian Sastra Yogyakarta: Pustaka Widyatama, 2003, cet. Ke-1, p.97. from the psychologist vision about the behaviorism. Emotion is part of personality psychology. 9 An emotion is a physiological response to a situation that is too important to leave to intellect alone, such as danger, painful loss, persisting towards goal despite frustrations, bonding with a mate, building a family. In effect, we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. The brain evolved over a million years to deal with the major challenges of survival - whether to fight or flee, ignore, or embrace the approaching challenge. Although our day-to-day challenges seldom relate to those faced by the caveman, social problems such as road rage, drive-by shootings, and in-your face taunts on the sports field give evidence to emotions out of the control of rational thought. 10 Properly used, the emotions are an essential tool for successful and fulfilling life. But out of control, emotions can result in disaster. In our day to-day life, they affect our relations with other people, our self-identity, and our ability to complete a task. To be effective, our cognitive processes must be in control of our emotions, so that they work for us rather than against us. 11 Specifically, the intelligence use of emotions is called by Emotional Intelligence. People can “intelligently” make “emotions” work for them by using them to help guide their behavior and by thinking in ways that enhance their result at work. Goleman, in 9 Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Jakarta: PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama. 13 th ed, 2003. p.7. 10 Daniel Goleman, A Review of Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Technical Education, Dick Culver Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, SUNY-Binghamton. p.1. 11 Ibid, p.2. his 1998b 12 book, adapted Salovey and Mayer’s in their 1990 13 work to define the measures of effective use of emotion, Emotional Intelligence.

2. Emotional Intelligence Theory