2. The Ego
The ego is the system of personality that develops out of id to deal with external world Hall and Lindzey, 1985: 36. The ego follows the reality principle
and operates by secondary process is the process of realistic thinking. By using secondary process, ego formulates plan to satisfy the needs and tests it by an
action to know whether the plan is successful or not. It is called reality testing. For example: When someone hungry, he will think of where he can find the some
meals. The main function of ego is as the facilitator between the instinctive need
with the condition of the real world. The ego will solve the problem of an individual, to satisfy the needs. For example: women agent want to join in the
screat agent or female agent, they will prepare their weapon equipment in order to join the war areas and be the winner.
3. The Superego
Superego is the representation of moral aim in personality. It represents internalized parental value Hall and Lindzey, 1985:34. The main function of
superego decides whether something is right or wrong in the society’s standard.
The superego is divided into two systems they are conscience and ego ideal Hall and Lindzey, 1985:36. The conscience punish as the result of wrong
behaviors. While the ego ideal is the reward of right behavior. For example when the child always given reward for the good attitude, he will consider that what has
done as ego ideal. Meanwhile, when the child given punishment for the bad behavior so he will consider that bad behavior as a bad thing.
According to Freud Hall and Lindzey, 1985:35 the functions of Superego are: to inhibit the id impulses especially sexual and aggressive which
cannot be accepted by the society, foreign moral goals on the ego, and to reach the perfection.
C. Notion of Emotion
Everyone in world must have experienced emotions, emotions that arise either because right from within themselves or come from other people, and
therefore the authors wanted to investigate about the emotions of a woman who happens in the Female Agent movie section the author want describes emotions,
and concept of emotion. An emotion is a complex state of awareness involving inner sensation and
outer expressions that has power motivated us to act, in fact the word emotion comes from Latin term with means to “move out” indicating its basic arousal
function. According to Charles Darwin “Emotion is largely inherited responses of
arousal that hav e a survival value in evolution” Atwater, 1983.
1. Concept of Emotion
Emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior.
Emotionality is associated with a range of psychological phenomena including temperament, personality, mood and motivation. According to author David G.
Meyers, human emotion involves ...physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. Atwater, 1983: 80
a. Bodily Sensation
One of the earliest theories held that a person’s perception of an external stimulus automatically aroused bodily change, such as the reflexive muscle
contractions that draw us back from electrical shock. Then, as an aftereffect, we feel these sensations Eastwood Atwater, 1983: 80.
An interesting result of neurological studies is the discovery that we can control some of our emotions by manipulating certain sensations. For example,
since the brain acts selectively in regard to incoming messages, we can control the emotion of pain by blocking he gates that allow pain signals to pass from the
afflicted body area to the brain, as in acupuncture, or by counteracting the pain signals through electrical stimulations Wang in Atwater, 1983.
b. Interpreted Sensations
Proponents of cognitive theories of emotion point out that emotion are more than sensation. They are interpreted sensation. The bodily arousal of
sensations furnishes the intensity of an emotion, but its quality or meaning for us is determined by relevant mental component Atwarer, 1983: 81.
A series experiment by Stanley Schacher and Jerome Singer 1962 have shown how our conscious experience of emotions depends very much on what we
think and how we interact with other when emotionally aroused.
c. Adaptive Response
Adaptive function of emotions is to strengthen the social ties between individuals and group.
Adaptive behavior refers to behavior that enables a person to get along in his or her environment with greatest success and least conflict with others. In
education, adaptive behavior is defined as that which 1 meets the needs of the community of stakeholders parents, teachers, peers, and later employers and 2
meets the needs of the learner, now and in the future. Specifically, these behaviors include such as effective speech, self-help, using money, cooking, and reading.
Atwater 1983:82
2. Awareness of Our Emotions
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