DEFENSE MECHANISM IN SIDNEY SHELDON’S ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
The major problem of this study is to elucidate how defense mechanism of Kelly is reflected in Sidney Sheldon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?. The objectives of the study are to analyze the novel based on its structural elements and to analyze the novel based on the psychoanalytic analysis. I...
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2007
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| Online adgang: | https://eprints.ums.ac.id/12879/ |
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| Summary: | The major problem of this study is to elucidate how defense mechanism
of Kelly is reflected in Sidney Sheldon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?. The
objectives of the study are to analyze the novel based on its structural elements
and to analyze the novel based on the psychoanalytic analysis.
In analyzing Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the researcher uses qualitative
method and psychoanalytic approach. The object of the study is Sydney Sheldon’s
Are You Afraid of the Dark?, published in 2004 by Warner Book. The data
sources are primary data and secondary data sources. The primary data sources are
the novel Are You Afraid of the Dark? itself and the secondary data sources are
the books and websites about the author bibliography, literature and the theory of
psychoanalytic approach. The method of data collection is library research. The
technique of data analysis is descriptive analysis.
The result of the study shows that sometimes several people are difficult
to face the fact in their lives. They do not want to know the truth because they
think it will hurt them. They often do defense mechanism to cover the fact. The
several shocking truth in the major character makes her lonely. She loses her trust
to everybody around her. That fact makes her lonely in the end. |
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