ABSTRACT
Family, as the child’s first environment sets the patterns for her/his attitudes toward people, things, and life in general. Parents, in this case have great responsibility in giving models to their children. Therefore, the writer is interested in analyzing Shaunna Privratsky’s short story, entitled Conversations with My Daughter, since this short story reveals the influence of family relationship, especially between mother and daughter.
In her analysis, the writer emphasizes on the three problems of the study. They are the daughter’s Id, Ego, and Superego, the emotional characteristics of the daughter and the parental attitudes of the mother. The purposes of the study are to find out daughter’s Id, Ego, and Superego according to Freudian Psychoanalysis theory, the emotional characteristics of the daughter, and parental attitudes of the mother. The object of the writer’s study is Conversations with My Daughter by Shaunna Privratsky.
The writer used some methods in analyzing the story. In reporting the result of data analysis, the writer used the descriptive analytical interpretation in which she gave the descriptions of the situation had happened, related to the theory of some researcher, then interpreted the condition of the characters. She collected the data in forms of words, phrases, and sentences, then she classified the data and put them into three tables with the different topics each.
The first data showed the daughter’s Id, Ego and Superego. The second data reflected the daughter’s emotional characteristics, and the third data performed the parental attitudes of mother. The writer in this case, used the theory of Psychoanalysis of Freud (Freudian psychoanalysis theory) to find out the daughter’s Id, Ego and Superego, the five basic emotions of Warga to analyze the daughter’s emotion, and a theory from Hurlock to describe the parental attitudes of the mother.
As the result, the writer found three conditions of the daughter showed her Id, Ego, and Superego. The daughter’s Id was reflected by her demands of freedom in having a date and dating partner, the daughter’s Ego was performed when she run away from home to marry with Joe. Next, the daughter’s Superego leads her to fix up her relationship with mother. Taken from Warga’s theory, the writer found that the five basic emotions; fear, anger, love, joy and sorrow were applied in the emotional characteristics of the daughter. Using a theory of Hurlock, in the case of parental attitudes of the mother, the writer only found the three items that showed the parental attitudes of her. They were overprotectiveness, permissiveness and acceptance.
