Eva’s Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Approach on the Movie Freedom Writers

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Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.1 , pp.54-58, Jan-2020

Online published on Jan 31, 2020

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Abstract :
This research describes about Eva’s personality development by using Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. The researcher was using qualitative research. The data are in the forms of utterance of Eva’s in the movie Freedom Writers. .The researcher getting the data based on downloading the movie and watching the movie. The data are collected using documentation. The researcher describes Eva’s personality using psychoanalysis approach by Freud; id, ego and superego which is showed the changing of her personality and how she dealing with it. The result of this research is, Eva’s personality is changed through time and her conscious mind or the way she thinks. Based on a psychoanalytic approach, Eva experienced the id, when she was had a bad experience with the white people and her dad was jailed. The ego, when she has seen another side of white people to her. She was debating herself and her id. And superego, she starts to make her mind more logic because she could decide between right and wrong in her eyes. No doubt or regret or hate anymore.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Psychoanalysis, Eva’s development personality, Freedom Writers movie

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