ANNA VIONITA , 2211412015 (2019) The Fixation Impact on Incest Victimization as reflected in Tallent’s My Absolute Darling: a Psychoanalysis Study. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

Fixation is considered as a psychological problem because it causes an individual unable to be a ‘normal person’ who can meet the society’s expectation. This final project aimed at analysing the fixation impact on the incest victimization as reflected on Gabriel Tallent’s My Absolute Darling. The problems of this study are: first, how the main character (Julia) develops her Fixation, second, the impact of her fixation on her victimization in incest relationship, and third how Julia finally resolves the incest relationship. In doing this study, I applied descriptive qualitative method. In terms of collecting data, there were: critical reading, identifying, inventorying, classifying, selecting and reporting. In this study, the Freudian psychoanalysis was used to observe the main character’s psychology. As a result, it was found out that Julia was stuck in the phallic stage or suffered from fixation because of her mother’s death in early childhood, and her needs as a child were not satisfied in the ego and superego formation. Being triggered by her father’s Eros love Julia was trapped in the incest relationship with him. As a victim and a daughter who had fixation, she expressed Storge and Eros love towards her father; she also showed her identity confusions trapped between passivity and masculinity. Her passivity was shown upon receiving her father’s abuses specifically sexual abuse as a result of her status as a castrated girl, on the other hand she was aggressive by showing her masculine traits because of her identification with perpetrator and her wish to have power like a man. Then, the development of superego and identification with women figure made her able to put an end of the incest and finally she became a teenager who led a normal life; it was a mark of entering the higher psychosexual stage, Latency where Julia took a rest from the conflicts and lived peacefully with same sex parent figure

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