The theory is used as a means to analyze the intended meanings through some features written by the playwright in the play. It takes less consideration of
time and historical background of the play.
4. Theory of Personality Structure
There is personality structure that Freud creates to show one’s character. According to Freud, the personality is made up of three major systems, the id, the
ego, and the superego. Three of them interact so closely with one another that it is difficult if not impossible to disentangle their effects and weigh their relative
contribution to man’s behavior. Behavior is nearly always the product of an interaction among these three systems Lindzey, et al, 1957: 32.
Kasschau states that Id is the lustful or drive-ridden part of the unconscious, and it operates in term of the pleasure principle, seeking immediate
gratification of desires, regardless of the consequences 1995: 272. It means that Id wants to obtain pleasure immediately during the times, and it also wants to
avoid pain. Kasschau states that superego is actually moral part of the personality-the
source of conscience and of high ideals-which operates in terms of a moral principle. The superego then is also the source of guilt feelings, which come from
mild as well as serious deviations from what it defines “right” 1995: 272. The superego can create conflict and problem. It is sometimes overly harsh, and crude.
It can be said that superego lists the things someone should not do and contains of 12
a list of things someone should do to feel proud of. By violating both, the list that should do and should not do can result in feeling of guilt.
Kasschau states that ego is the thoughtful personality process that operates in terms of the reality principle 1995: 272. Part of the ego is conscious and it
corresponds to the self; ego obeys the reason and learns from experience.
C. Criticism
Buried Child is a winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, written in 1970s. https:www.dramatists.comcgi-bindbsingle.1351. Buried Child is part of
Shepards family trilogy comprising Curse of the Starving Class and True West. It is recognized as the fertile product of a playwright at the height of his
imaginative powers and the landscape he evokes, both physical and psychological, is paradoxically intimate and expansive - a world colored by fear, obsession and
prejudice, corrupted by complicity and lies and challenged by half-crazy states of the mind. Shepard draws his themes of family history, the quest for identity,
betrayal and loss from the mythology of the American West. Primitive urges and deep desires are a controlling force and the use of symbolism, dream-like use of
time and space, and ritual, especially which of burial and excavation, ascent and descent, heighten the drama. Buried Child, like most of Shepards plays, is
suffused with symbolism, which he uses to communicate deeper, though sometimes
ambiguous, levels
of meaning
to his
audiences http:www.smh.com.auarticles200209261032734277401.html.
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