Cahyaning Familyati , 2211412073 (2016) A MORAL PANIC AS THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER AS PORTRAYED IN ALICE SEBOLD’S THE LOVELY BONES. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Psychosexual disorder is a mental health problem referring to sexual dysfunctions. In this study, the writer investigates psychosexual disorder (pedophilia) which was suffered by the main character in The Lovely Bones. The second issue is a moral panic that was portrayed in the novel as the impact of this disorder on the victim, family, and society. The object of the study is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It is a qualitative descriptive study which applied Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud as the approach to analyse the novel. The results of the study show: first, psychosexual disorder was caused by a fixation when the character of Mr. Harvey was in phallic stage, the criminal as illustrated in the novel could not pass psychosexual development perfectly. As the result, he becomes a pedophile and raped and murdered children. Second, the impact of the crime caused by someone who suffers psychosexual disorder causes a moral panic towards the victim, family, and society. This is due to anxiety and fearful feeling which are felt by them. According to Welsh (2011), the moral panic reaction of the neighbour is the fear of extinction caused by unconscious fixation. The ‘panic’ is caused by the psychosexual disorder’s body represented by human, while the sense of morality is caused by the blurring of boundaries between the self and other.

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