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The major problem of this study is to reveal how the major character solves his inner conflict based on the structural elements and to analyze the novel based on the psychoanalytic analysis. In analyzing The Man In The Iron Mask, the writer uses qualitative method and psychoanalytic approach. The object of the study is Alexandre Dumas’s The Man In The Iron Mask published 1990 by Jaico Book. The primary data source is the novel The Man In The Iron Mask itself and the secondary data source is the other sources related to the analysis such as the author’s biography, books of literary theory and psychological books, especially psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud. The method of data collection is library research. The technique of data analysis is descriptive analysis. The outcome of the study shows that the problem faced by the major character causes the conflict of his mental condition. It brings him to moral anxiety that influences his personality. Finally, the change of personality makes him suffer in the end.