The main character's defense mechanisms in The Safe Haven Film
| Main Author: | Siti Nurrohmah Cahyani |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
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Daftar Isi:
- The Main Character?s Defense Mechanisms in Safe Haven Film. A Thesis. English Letters Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2018. This research is focused on Katie Feldman, the main character in Safe Haven film. The aim of this study is to know the psychological problem and analyze the defense mechanisms using Psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud. This study uses qualitative method and descriptive analysis as the technique to analyze the data with theory of Psychoanalysis that related to psychological condition and defense mechanism, in the film. The data are collected from dialogues in the script and pictures in the film. The findings show that Katie Feldman as the 27 years old woman has some psychological problem caused by the domestic violence. Katie?s greatest fear is her husband, who she almost kills. Katie runs away from her husband to the new place. She always have a nightmare about her husband, scares of every sound that she hears every night around her home, cannot accepts what people try to give to her especially from a men. Katie also has a hallucination by creating a new figure, which she created from her other side. Katie has done some defense mechanisms, so that she can face her greatest fear and remove her trauma and anxiety.