THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE, ANXIETY, AND DEFENSE MECHANISM AS PORTRAYED IN YANAGIHARA’S NOVEL A LITTLE LIFE

ZULFATUS SYARIFAH, HUWAIDA (2022) THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE, ANXIETY, AND DEFENSE MECHANISM AS PORTRAYED IN YANAGIHARA’S NOVEL A LITTLE LIFE. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang.

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Abstract

This study points out the relationship between anxieties of the main char cter, Jude St. Francis, caused by series of traumatic events happened to him from childhood to adulthood and how he copes with anxiety using defense mechanism. This study used Psychoanalysis Theory by Sigmund Freud with the development on Defense Mechanism theory by Anna Freud and applied descriptively qualitative research to analyze the collected data from dialogues, monologues, and narratives in the novel. In data collecting, the researcher used several steps, for instance reading the novel, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the collected data from the novel. \ The result of the study highlights many traumatic experiences Jude go through in this novel including physical, psychological, sexual abuse. The traumatic events have influenced in Jude's anxiety which is realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety, and moral anxiety. To overcome anxiety, Jude performs six defense mechanisms, such as repression, suppression, projection, sublimation, denial, and rationalization. Keyword: psychoanalysis theory, traumatic experience, anxiety, defense mechanism

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa dan Ilmu Komunikasi
Fakultas Bahasa dan Ilmu Komunikasi > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Pustakawan 5 UNISSULA
Date Deposited: 05 May 2023 06:38
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 06:38
URI: http://repository.unissula.ac.id/id/eprint/28256

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