ANXIETY IN JANE AUSTEN’S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

The problem of the study is to reveal how major character reflects her anxiety. The objective of the study is to analyze the novel based on its structural analysis and based on the psychoanalytic analysis. This study is a qualitative study. The object of the study is Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility published in 1992 in London by Stephen Arkin. The data sources are divided into two, namely primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data is the novel itself and the secondary data source is the other sources related to the analysis such as the author biography, books of literary theory and also psychological books, particularly related to the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud. The method of data collection is library research. The technique of data analysis is descriptive analysis. Based on the data that have been collected and analyzed, the writer concludes that Sense and Sensibility is a novel that reflects the author’s idea and intention that Jane Austen wants to show that there is no benefit from keeping secret in deep feeling. Jane Austen tells that the problem of the major character causes the conflict of her mental condition. It brings her into anxiety because the influence of her personality. Her personality is driven by her id, but her superego always warns her not allow her id controlling her behavior.