Woman Personality in Lady Bird Movie through Carl Gustav Jung Psychoanalysis Perspective

Abstrak

This study aims to analyze the Lady Bird movie by Greta Gerwig based on the psychoanalytic perspective. The objective of this study is to analyze the personality structure of Christine McPherson in Lady Bird. The data collected through watching, screen shooting, making notes and interpreting to get a complete analysis of Christine’s Personality. This study uses Carl Gustav Jung's psychoanalytic as the theoretical basis. The result showed that Christine's personality in Lady Bird movie is categorized into four archetypes. They are a persona, animus, shadow, and self. These archetypes reflected in Christine's personality process in searching for an identity as a daughter, both at home and outside. The archetypes allow Christine to be able to put herself into certain circumstances and maintain her identity at the end of the story. The main character, Christine McPherson eventually reaches her completeness, wholeness and unity in her life, which is in self. It signifies that the major character manages to minimize the persona, realize her animus, balance her shadow and enhance her self gradually leading to the centre of the psyche.

Kata kunci

• Archetype
• Personality
• Psychology of literature
• Woman
• literature
• psycoanalysis