CHRIS GARDNER'S PERSONALITY TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE INGABRIELE MUCCINO'S THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS MOVIE (2006):A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

• Main Author: PUSPANINGRUM, ANISA SEPTI (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2011.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/1/HALAMAN_DEPAN.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/2/CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/3/CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/6/CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/8/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/10/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13878/15/BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

This research investigates how is the personality of Chris Gardner to have a better life in Gabriele Muccino's The Pursuit of Happyness movie (2006), especially viewed by psychoanalytic approach. Therefore, the study analyzes the movie in terms of its structural elements and based on the psychoanalytic approach. This study belongs to descriptive qualitative study. In this method, the writer uses two data sources; they are primary and secondary data source. The primary data source and the object of the study is the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, meanwhile the secondary data sources are any books of literature and psychoanalytic related to this study. The writer collects the data from both primary and secondary data sources in a short of document evidence. Based on the analysis, the outcome of this study shows that the problem of the major character encounters causes of the conflict of his mental condition. There are conflicts between id and superego, meanwhile ego belongs to them. It influences his personality to do some ways to escape from it. At the end, the superego of the major character changes his personality to be better. He gets happiness with all of his sacrifices.