What do Indonesian Novelists Think About?

Abstract

Literary work is defined as a representation of human life that is processed through the imaginative path of a writer. Novels as literary works that have a high level of complexity have the potential to have conflict complexity that is displayed implicitly or explicitly. This study aimed to identify the author's style of showing conflict in his/her novel. In addition, the conflicts that arise in the novel were compared to show the interest used to lead readers' opinions. The results showed that psychologically, most writers using the ego approach worked using a secondary process. The ego shown in the novels is dominated by the ideal ego which shows that personality of superego in the context of human behavior becomes a system that forms moral and ethical values used to shape the perfect human personality. Superego tends to oppose both id and most novelists in Indonesia describe the differences of the main figure and the gradual supporting figure. The degree of superiority of the figures is stratified.