Facing Anxiety through Ego Defense Mechanisms on The Walking Dead: Michonne Movie Game

With the advancement of technology, a newly adopted form of literary work was found, known as a movie game. It is one of the game genres that resembles real movies that provide choices to the players who can actively determine the story, ending, and characters' action. In literary work, a character is one of the intrinsic elements that can be interestingly analyzed from the psychological perspective, including Ego Defense Mechanisms. This study focuses on how the protagonist in a movie game entitled The Walking Dead: Michonne faced her anxiety through her ego defense mechanisms. It aims to identify the types of ego defense mechanisms and how they can help the protagonist cope with her anxiety. The discussion was based on psychoanalysis theory, namely Ego Defense Mechanisms proposed by Sigmund Freud. This study elaborated the description of the protagonist's actions when she faced anxiety through a qualitative method. The analysis revealed that the protagonist adopted the four types of Ego Defense Mechanisms: repression, sublimation, rationalization, and aggression. It was found that aggression was the most frequently adopted mechanism, followed by sublimation, rationalization, and the least was repression. This finding indicated that the protagonist chose aggression to release resentment or dissatisfaction, especially when facing objects or other characters that create anxiety or frustration. It implies that the persistence of aggression, sublimation, rationalization, and repression could reflect the presence of continual threats in the environment from which people should survive.

Psychological Dynamics of Young People on Broken Home Families

This research intends to find out the psychological dynamics of young people on broken home families in SMP Negeri 4 Malang, East Java, Indonesia; which are evaluated on 1) perceptions about their self, 2) perceptions about their family, 3) role in family and friends environment, and 4) reactions to family problems. This research using a phenomenology approach. We selected the subjects using the snowball sampling method. Data collection applied by interviews, observation, and documentation. The data analysis technique uses reduction, display, and verification of data while testing the validity of the data using the checking member design. The results of the study indicate various perceptions of broken home on young people on themselves and their families. The average self-perception is dominated by a sense of inferiority, feels unlucky as others, and also assumes to have the darkest life. Meanwhile, the perception of the family for broken home of young people, among others: family is a selfish, frightening, and unhappy person. Family conditions that are inharmonious also affect young people's behavior; broken home in family and friends. They show maladaptif behavior such as fighting and rant, loner, pleases to hallucinate, and resist. Young people from broken home families also do the Ego Defense Mechanism as a reaction in negotiating with their family issues.

Struktur Kepribadian dan Mekanisme Pertahanan Ego Tokoh Utama dalam Naskah Drama Al-Wajhu Al-Muẓlim li Al-Qamar Karya Najib Kailani

This article aims to peel the structure of the main character psychological condition and the defense mechanisms of his ego by using Freud's psychoanalysis theory. This is because the drama script has a very complicated problem which is experienced by the main character, Salim, in his life. He had despaired and felt that his life was empty because he got several influences from western culture. The personality structure, according to Sigmund Freud, is divided into three: id, ego and superego. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The result of this research is that personality structure which consists of id, ego and superego was found in Salim's figure. However, the dominating one is the id, then the ego, and the last superego. The researcher can make a hierarchy of personality structure of the main character, Salim, based on his research as (1) the personality structure in the form of id occupies the first level because its appearance is very intense; (2) the personality structure in the form of ego occupies the second level because its appearance is not as much as the id, (3) The personality structure in the form of superego occupies the third level because Salim rarely uses in conscience based on good or bad morality. Meanwhile, the ego defense mechanism found by the researcher in this drama script is (1) repression, (2) displacement or diversion, (3) rationalization, and (4) direct aggression. The others were not found in the drama script. The defense mechanism of the ego displacement becomes one often done by Salim figure to avoid the problem and the psychological conflict that he experienced. The reason is that he diverts feelings of displeasure towards an object to other objects that are more likely to be used as a backrest in the complicated conflict in himself. He considers that the defense mechanism of the ego's displacement felt more secure so as not to add to the complicated problem that he faces.

EGO DEFENSE MECHANISM OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN "FIGHT CLUB" NOVEL (1996) PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY

This research paper analyzed the ego defense mechanism by Sigmund Freud that are found in the main character of “Fight Club“ novel. The author of novel is Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. This research applied qualitative study, and the data are derived from the novel. The researcher focuses on causes of defense mechanism, the ego defense mechanism that the main character experienced and the effect that the main character got. The researcher found that anxiety is the cause why defense mechanism of the main character can active. The main character also applied ego defense mechanism namely displacement and reaction formation. And the effect for the main character is he becomes more bravely and easier to accept the reality. The ego defense mechanism is an unconscious psychological process that helps a person overcome anxiety due to a stressful internal or external environment. The defense mechanism finds its origin in Freud's structural theory of mind, which divides the human mind into three parts: id, ego, and superego. The interaction of the ego and superego gives rise to morality, guilty, and a conscience.

KONFLIK BATIN TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL KARYA RUWI MEITA TINJAUAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA DAN RELEVANSINYA SEBAGAI BAHAN AJAR SASTRA INDONESIA DI SMA

<p><em>The purpose of this study was to describe: the form of ego defense mechanism used by the main character in resolving inner conflicts, character education values, and relevance as literary learning material in high school. This research was carried out with qualitative descriptive method and using literary psychology approach. The results of this study indicate that: 1) the form of inner conflict in the Kaliluna novel: Luka di Salamanca by Ruwi Meita includes the conflict away and the conflict approaching; (2) the form of the ego defense mechanism used by Kaliluna to resolve inner conflicts experienced by the main character in the novel Kaliluna: Luka di Salamanca in the form of sublimation, diversion, aggression, projection, reaction formation, apathy, and fantasy; (3) the values of character education contained in the novel include religious, tolerance, discipline, hard work, creative, independent, curiosity, national spirit, friendly / communicative, fond of reading, social care, and responsibility; (4) Kaliluna : Luka di Salamanca is relevant to teaching materials for learning Indonesian literature in high school because it is in accordance with the principles of good teaching materials and provides many positive values to be realized in daily life </em><em></em></p>

KECEMASAN DAN MEKANISME PERTAHANAN EGO TOKOH UTAMA DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN (Lǔ Xùn Xiǎoshuō Quánjí 鲁迅小说全集) KARYA LU XUN (Kajian Psikoanalisis Sigmund Freud)

This research aims to study psychoanalysis main character in the short story collection Lu Xun entitled (Lǔ Xun Xiǎoshuō Quánjí 鲁迅 小说 全集) Works of Lu Xun which include (1) concerns the main character (realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety, and moral anxiety), (2) the cause the main character of anxiety (realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety), (3) the main character's ego defense mechanisms (repression, sublimation, projection, transfer, rationalization, regression, identification, denial of reality, intellectualization, redemption. Datas of this study focuses on anxiety and ego defense mechanism in the collection of short stories (Lǔ Xun Xiǎoshuō Quánjí 鲁迅 小说 全集) Works of Lu Xun. The researcher uses descriptive analysis techniques. Descriptive analysis techniques are done by describing the facts which are then followed by analysis. The total of 153 data was collected data; anxiety realistic citations, 34; neurotic anxiety; 56, anxiety morals; 5, repression; 31, intellectualization; 4, denial of reality; 2, identifying; 6, redemption; 1, reaction formation; 5, the projection; 2, and rationalization ,7 respectively. In consideration of the research result, (1) neurotic anxiety dominates so the purpose (2) also dominated, for the purpose of (3) ego defense mechanism of repression dominate.