MINNIE’S IMBALANCE PERSONALITY AS MANIFESTED IN HER DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN PHOEBE GLOECKNER’S THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

Abstract

This research aims to: 1) reveal Minnie’s imbalance system of personality which is triggered by her unpleasant experience, 2) scrutinize the relation between Minnie’s imbalance system of personality and its manifestation as  reflected in her delinquent behavior and increased sexual pleasure-seeking drives. This study is a qualitative research. Content analysis method was employed to analyze the data. The object of this study was a hybrid novel which contains both of words and graphic illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner entitled The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The forms of the data of this study were expressions in words and pictures related to imbalance personality of Minnie which taken from the novel.  The data collection was conducted by comprehensively reading the data and taking some notes of the important words and pictures expression related to the topic. The data were observed by using psychoanalysis theory from Sigmund Freud, focusing on the organization of personality, mainly in the domination of the id within the system of personality. In order to come to the trustworthiness of the data, the researcher applied proof-reading methods. The findings of the research show that Minnie’s imbalance system of personality is caused by the domination of the id.  Her parents’ twice marital divorces which makes her lack of love and affection stimulates her id to seek for pleasure and to  reduce the pain through delinquency such as having sexual activity to older men and girl of her age, stealing, engaging to drugs, and getting drunk. Minnie neglects the superego’s state of morality; she keeps pursuing pleasure in an inappropriate way.

Keywords: delinquent behavior, psychoanalysis, the imbalance system of personality, the domination of the id, The Diary of a Teenage Girl.