The Domination of Id in Grenouille’s Personality in Patrick Suskind’s Novel Perfume

• Main Author: Arista Firanda
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English; English; English; English; English; English; English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: P Language and Literature; PR83 English literature
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/3/1.%20HALAMAN%20JUDUL.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/1/2.%20DAFTAR%20ISI.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/2/3.%20ABSTRAK.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/5/4.%20BAB%20I%20PENDAHULUAN.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/4/5.%20BAB%20II%20TINJAUAN%20PUSTAKA.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/6/6.%20BAB%20III%20HASIL%20DAN%20ANALISA.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/7/7.%20BAB%20IV%20KESIMPULAN.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/8/8.%20DAFTAR%20PUSTAKA.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/9/9.%20SINOPSIS.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/116438/; http://www.lib.unair.ac.id
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille has an ambition to be the greatest perfumer and the creator of the most unique perfume in the world. To accomplish his ambition, Grenouille kills twenty five virgin girls because Grenouille will use their aromas as the perfume. The method that is going to use is descriptive analysis, the writer will search for data from library and online research. Sigmund Freud’s structure of personality will be applied in order to analyze Grenouille’s personality. It consists of the id, the ego, and the superego. The id consists of all impulses, instincts, drives, and become the reservoir of psychic energy that moves the ego and the superego. The ego becomes the mediator between the id and the superego. While the superego represents the norm and social values in the society. The aim of this study is to examine Grenouille’s behavior from Freud’s structuref personality. The findings of the study are there is a failure in one of the psychosexual stages of development causes the development of Grenouille’s ego interrupted. The failure makes Grenouille’s ego can not properly do its functions. Moreover, the concept of right or wrong in the superego is unclear for Grenouille. Consequently, the id can do everything it wants to do because the ego can not restrain the id’s desire. The study will be focusing on the description of Grenouille’s character and to find out the work of the id, the ego, and the superego in Grenouille’s character.