THE ANXIETY AND DEFENSE MECHANISM OF ANNA AS THE MAIN CHARACTER DEPICTED IN A. J. FINN’S NOVEL THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

This study describes anxiety and defense mechanism of the main character reflected in The Woman in The Window novel. Anna becomes a suspicious with her memory after seeing a murder. Psychoanalysis is useful to understand human behavior. Psychoanalysis is also useful to help in understanding literary text, which is about human behavior. This study used a qualitative method. The data were gathered by reading the novel, identifying, classifying, and reducing the data. Prologues, monologues, and dialogues in the novel as the data were used to explain the analysis. The primary data gathered from The Woman in The Window novel and secondary data from books, journals, articles, essays, and sites that relate to the study. The result of the study found two categories of anxiety that were experienced by Anna. They are realistic anxiety and moralistic anxiety. Realistic anxiety by Anna is because of the terror from Alistar and imposter Jane. Moralistic anxiety by Anna is because of her profession as a psychologist, she is also insecure when she is not trusted by society and she feels guilty because she cheats on Ed again. Anna coped her anxieties by using defense mechanisms such as reaction formation, rationalization, denial, undoing, repression and displacement. The result of the study finds the conclusion about anxieties and Defense mechanisms by Anna. Keywords: Anxiety, Defense Mechanism and Psychoanalysis