This study aims to identify the anxiety experienced by Kamila Sidiqi and explain the defense mechanisms as a strategy to reduce her anxiety. This study applies the psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud to analyze anxiety and defense mechanisms on Kamila Sidiqi as the main character in Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's novel The Dressmaker of Khair Khana published in March 2011.
This study used qualitative research to analyze the data collected through dialogues, prologues, monologues, and narrations in the novel. In the process of collecting data, there are several steps used, such as reading the novel, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data.
Based on this study, it can be concluded that Kamila experiences two of three types of anxiety. They are neurotic anxiety and reality anxiety. Afterward, Kamila uses three types of defense mechanisms to cope with her anxiety. They are Sublimation, Intellectualization, and Reaction formation.

Keyword: Psychoanalysis theory, Anxiety, and Defense Mechanism