Crystal Tanjaya Kusuma Dewi, 221145038 (2020) DEFENSE MECHANISM TOWARDS SOCIAL ANXIETY AS REFLECTED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PALACIO’S WONDER. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

Defense mechanism is a kind of defense that is used by human to react towards the source of danger including anxiety. Subsequently, it becomes one of the psychoanalysis focuses that is applied to analyze literary works. This research was conducted to analyze defense mechanism towards social anxiety applied by the main character in Palacio’s Wonder. The objectives of this study are to explain how defense mechanism towards social anxiety is described in the novel and to what extent that the anxiety creates character’s defense mechanism. The object of the study is a novel entitled Wonder written by Raquel Jaramillo Palacio. This study was conducted using descriptive qualitative method by applying Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The theory was used to analyze the data that had been collected by reading the novel, note-taking, classifying, and rejecting the irrelevant ones. By using the psychoanalytic theory, the analysis focused on the main character’s anxiety and defense mechanism. The results show that there are two kinds of anxiety that are considered as social anxiety, which are realistic and moral anxiety. Meanwhile, the results also show five kinds of defense mechanism applied by the main character including denial, displacement, rationalization, regression, and reaction formation to reduce anxiety that affect himself. Those kinds of defense mechanism create the main character’s self-improvement and motivational personality covering confident, optimistic, courageous, smart, and forgiving that result on gaining an award. In conclusion, that anxiety and defense mechanism have the contribution in affecting the main character’s self-improvement

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