The Need of Inclusion The Need for Control

29 content of thought that can influence one’s attitude and personality Cloninger, 2004: 34. Thus the main character’s thought can be used to figure out their personality. Psychodynamic Theory is used to reveal one’s personality. This theory concerns with one’s behavior or reaction toward some situation or problems related to one’s mind in which ID, Ego, and Superego are involved. This way will make it easy to find out how the characters’ reaction and attitude towards problems or certain situation can influence their personality. The way a person perceives self and experiences his world in their society probably different from one another. It depends on the environment or the society around him or her, the way others treat or judge him or her. Therefore one may have subjective experiences and feelings. For the deeper understanding of one’s subjective experiences caused by environment and others, Phenomenological Theory is preferred to use. Talking about one’s personality, it will be also related to the relationship an individual builds with. In another word, friendship will also influence one’s personality. The Theory of Friendship is used to analyze what kind relationship that the two main characters have. It has motivated them to find their identity and to solve their problems. The relationship between psychology and literature is used to give a brief explanation about the connection between those two fields in order to help the readers perceive the characters as the real human who have real personalities and experience the real life so that it can be proved that psychology and literature can complete each other. 30

D. Criticism

. Julia Llewellyn is the author of The Love Trainer, If I Were You and Amys Honeymoon. Julia lives in London. Besides writing novels, she also writes regularly for The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times and many other publications. If I were You is her second novel which is a non-fiction story wrote in 2006. It is such a kind of popular novel, which is written for entertaining the readers. The novel has 487 pages and divided into 57 chapters. It is published by the Penguin Group in London, England. And it has published and sold into many countries. This novel is based on a subject very close to Llewellyn’s heart – a subject she realized the readers never hear anyone talking about: Friend Envy. “My girl friends have always been the most important constant in my life yet at the same time I am ashamed to admit I have often harbored deep feelings of envy for them” said Julia Lewellyn. Like every kind of literary work, the novel of If I were You by Julia Llewellyn also gets many reactions from publics. In one side, there are readers who admire and enjoy reading the novel. But in the other side, there are also readers who criticize this work. As quoted in an articles entitled If I were You by Julia Llewellyn http:www.penguin.co.ukstaticcsuk0thenextbigthingindex.html accessed on 23 August 2008, there are some critics directed to the novel: “As soon as I read the title of Julias second novel I was already hooked. I cant think of a single woman who hasnt contemplated what it would be like to live someone elses life, particularly their best friends. I read a lot of womens fiction and more often than not, I find myself quite disengaged from the main female characters largely because I cannot relate to them in any way.” ”However with If I Were You, Julia has created two very real heroines in