Pursuing Happiness in Eat Pray Love Movie (2010) Directed by Ryan Murphy: a Psychoanalytic Approach

Abstract

This movie is true story of Elizabeth Gilbert’s life that adapted from her novel. This movie tells about Liz’s journey for a year that visit three counties to pursue her happiness. The research is proposed to analyze pursuing happiness of Liz Gilbert’s personalities in facing her depression with Psychoanalytic Approach. The objective of the study is to analyze the film based on the psychoanalytic approach. This study is a descriptive qualitative study, using the movie of Ryan Murphy’s Eat Pray Love. And Eat Pray Love’s major character as the object of analysis of the study. The researcher makes an analysis of Liz Gilbert’s id, ego, and superego. The researcher uses the theory of Psychoanalytic by Sigmund Freud because it is relevant to the problem. Based on the analysis, the outcome of this study shows the following conclusion. Firstly, there is a close relationship between a work of literature and Psychoanalysis Phenomena. Secondly, the general conclusion of psychoanalysis of humans is when people get desperate then they pursue the happiness.