MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN EVERY DAY NOVEL BY DAVID LEVITHAN

Abstract

This study aims to discover and analyze the types of mental issue and how to comprehend particular mental issue spesifically in novel and to determine the pattern of consciousness in the state of id, ego and superego. The primary data sources used in this study are from novel Every Day that written by David Levithan. The story of this novel about a spirit was that lived by borrowing the life of the body it lived in, never stayed in the same body twice or stayed for more than one day. The data obtained by reading the novel, identifying words or sentences that contained the types of mental issue and the consciousness of id, ego, superego, highlighting words or sentences, reading, re-understanding, summarize main points, and after that writer could drawing and find the conclusion. The writer uses qualitative descriptive method uses in analyzing the data. The resulted of this study showed that the main character had a mental health issue of Dissociative Identity Disorder, it showed the main personality and alter ego personality, the main character had a lot of identities inside him. For the level conscious the main character had dominant of id, whereas the impulsive, immoral, needs, love was more dominant that the ego and superego.