The Impacts of Anxiety toward Main Character in Serena’s Novel by Ron Rash (Psychoanallysis of Sigmun Freud)
Keywords:
Impact of Anxiety, Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis, Destructive Impact, Conservative ImpactAbstract
The aims of this Research are to describe the impacts of anxiety experienced by the main characters in Serena’s novel by Ron Rash, and to describe how these impacts of Anxiety towards main character in Serana’s novel by Ron Rush. The method used in this research is a qualitative approach using Philipp Mayring’s content analysis method. The data source consists of quotations (words, phrases, and sentences) taken from Ron Rash’s Serena. The technique of collecting data in this research through a library research technique, which involved repeated reading, observation, note-taking, and analysis. The findings reveal two forms of anxiety impacts on the main characters in the novel, destructive and conservative. Destructive impacts occurred four times, while conservative impacts occurred three times. The destructive impacts experienced by Serena was three times (43%), and Pemberton once (14.28%). The destructive impacts experienced by the main characters are driven by enxiety that rised to the death-instinct within the id, causing the ego to act aggressively, resulting in harmful and dangerous behavior toward other characters. Meanwhile, the conservative impatcs are experienced only by Pemberton three times (28.57%). These conservative impacts are driven by anxiety that rised to the life-instinct within the id, so encouraging the ego to preserve life and prompting the character to save others in Ron Rash’s Serena novel.
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