The Analysis of Main Character’s Anxiety on “Confessions of A Shopaholic” Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella

Wijaya, Dewi (2019) The Analysis of Main Character’s Anxiety on “Confessions of A Shopaholic” Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Buddhi Dharma.

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Abstract

The title of this research is “ The Analysis of Main Character on Confessions of A Shopaholic Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella”. Confessions of A Shopaholic novel is tells about a women named Rebecca Bloomwood who has bad behavior that are shopping addiction to fulfill her desire but she gets anxiety because of her debts and it disturbs her psychological. This research will focuses on Rebecca’s anxiety. The data are taken from the novel in the form of dialog and monolog. The writer using psychoanalysis theory from Sigmund Freud that related with anxiety theory. Sigmund Freud theory has 3 kinds of anxiety, there are realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety. This theory is used to analyze the cause and effect of Rebecca Bloomwood’s anxiety. Last, the writer found the proved from Rebecca experiences three kinds of anxiety. First is neurotic anxiety caused by her bad habit that are shopping everything that she wants not what she needs. Second is realistic anxiety caused by her bad habit in shopping, that makes Rebecca has a lot of debts and that makes she becomes panic everytime met her debt collector. And the last moral anxiety caused by she felt guilty of her shopping behavior. And she becomes a liar to defense herself.

Item Type: Thesis (Skripsi)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Rebecca, Character, Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, Defense Mechanism.
Subjects: 100 Filsafat dan Psikologi > 155 Psikologi Diferensial dan Psikologi Perkembangan > 155.2 Psikologi Individual, Karakter
400 Bahasa > 407 Pendidikan Bahasa, Riset Bahasa dan Topik Terkait tentang Bahasa
800 Kesusastraan > 820 Sastra Inggris
800 Kesusastraan > 823 English Fiction, Novel Inggris
400 Bahasa > 420 Bahasa Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Sosial & Humaniora > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Users 1458 not found.
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2023 08:18
Last Modified: 05 Apr 2023 08:18
URI: http://repositori.buddhidharma.ac.id/id/eprint/1806

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