Riky Ardiyansyah , 2211412036 (2019) THE MAJOR CHARACTER ANXIETY REFLECTED IN COETZEE’S DISGRACE. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This study attempts to analyze the anxiety of the major character on Disgrace novel that is David Lurie 52 years old men. He is a womanizer and has a daughter live in a remote area in Africa. The objectives of the study are: 1) To describe anxiety experienced by David Lurie in Disgrace novel. 2) To explain the defense mechanism of David Lurie towards his anxiety based on the psychoanalytic approach by Sigmund Freud. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data that focused on the textual data. This research analyzes by relating the data with Freud’s Psychoanalysis theory of three principles (Id, Superego and Ego). The result of the study shows that: 1) The major character experienced three kinds of anxiety called neurotic anxiety, realistic anxiety, and moral anxiety based on internal conflict and Freud’s three principles theory. The anxiety suffered by David affected by threat, frustration, age, gender, environment, fear, repression and desire conflict that the major character experiencing on his life. 2) The major character uses the defense mechanism to reduce his anxiety such as rationalization, projection, and aggression. The researcher conclude that David suffers moral and reality anxiety the most that caused by his age, environment and repression. To reduce those two anxieties, he uses defense mechanism called rationalization and aggression

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