prefers competition to solve the conflict, she emphasizes her viewpoint as the possible solution, by climbs to her parents’ bed and lies between them.
2. Sybil’s Intrapersonal Conflicts
There are three types of intrapersonal conflict. First is approach-approach because it involves making a choice between two equally attractive alternatives. The
opposite of this is avoidance-avoidance conflict, in which the alternatives are equally unattractive. It means we are damned if choose one and doomed if we don’t. And the
last is double-approach-avoidance; that the conflict involves such choices of good and evil on both sides Warga 112.
a. The Conflicts between Sybil and Her Splitting Personalities
The conflicts here are the ones between Sybil and the personalities within her. It can be assumed that Sybil faces a war within. As stated in chapter two that the
splitting personalities within a person suffering from dissociative identity disorder are independent. It means they have their own age, name, sex, intelligence, and
personal states, own characteristics, hobbies, and interests Huffman, Vernoy and Vernoy 506. Inevitably they always trigger some clashes of interests of one to
another. The clashes are considered as a double-approach-avoidance conflict. The thing that is good to an individual will not always be good for the other one. It has
good and bad perceptions on both sides. The decision of Mary to buy a house makes Sybil burn in furry. In Mary’s
perspective, it is fine to buy a house because she wants a privacy that she does not PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
get in her childhood, and a house is also symbolize as an escape from the primal scenes she ever sees. But, for Sybil, it will cost a lot of money, while she has not that
much Schreiber 332-334. On the other hand, the other personalities also take its wise action based on their thought. Peggy always plans to take over the selfhood,
Vanessa works at Laundromat, and Marcia storm the citadel of authorship Schreiber 343.
Sybil realizes that she is a hostage of the selves that she has not been able to deny. It raises conflicts also. For the limited funds, all the clothes in her wardrobe
she never buy, and her paintings are completed when she is absent. Furthermore, because the others take individual doses of the medicines, consequently it runs out
before it is time to renew a prescription Schreiber 343. There are also conflicts among the alternates. It is portrayed in certain
occasions when Peggy Lou controls Sybil’s body and when she goes to a store in Broadway. She picks a dish, and wants to break it, but, Vicky comes up and
restrains. And in spite of Vicky’s prevention, it makes them argue Schreiber 344.
b. Ignoring Her Belief
