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.
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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