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Joy Newsome Defense Mechanisms in Room Film (2015) JOY NEWSOME DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN ROOM FILM (2015) A Thesis Submitted to Faculty of Adab and Humanities in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Strata One (S1) WIDYA ATSMARA 1113026000035 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ADAB AND HUMANITIES STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA 2017 ABSTRACT Widya Atsmara, Joy Newsome Defense Mechanisms in Room Film (2015). A Thesis. English Letters Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2017. This research is focused on Joy Newsome, one of the main characters in Room film. It aims to reveal the characterization of Joy Newsome in the film and to reveal Joy’s psychological condition through psychoanalysis theory by using qualitative method. The findings show that Joy Newsome, a 24 years old mother who has a tough life in “room”, is being trapped for seven years with his son, Jack. She protects her son from being met with Old Nick for five years. Joy plans to escape from “room” for her son’s sake. She becomes unconfident about her life compared with other people. Due to the anxiety, Joy has unbalance personality structure caused by the domination of Id or Superego. Her anxiety of her surroundings trigger her depression appears, especially when she gets out of “room”. Joy has done six defense mechanisms to overcome her anxieties and fortunately, those are enough to make her better and ready to start a new normal life. Joy looks stress for facing a new environment after getting out of “room” which is a place that symbolizes her habitual life. She cannot fully express her feeling and emotion due to her son’s sake. Furthermore, she uses defense mechanisms to heal herself. The mechanisms that she used make her survive outside “room” and she got used to the condition as she was in “room”. Keywords: psychoanalysis, defense mechanism, film analysis, personality structure. i APPROVEMENT JOY NEWSOME DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN ROOM FILM (2015) ii LEGALIZATION iii DECLARATION I hereby declared that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgement has been made in the text. Jakarta, November 3rd 2017 Widya Atsmara iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Bismillahirrahmaanirrahiim In the name of Allah, the most Merciful and the most Kind. First of all, the writer would like to give the most appreciation and many thanks to Allah SWT, for the blessing so I could finish this thesis. All the praises belong to Allah SWT, the Lord of the Universe and the Creator of the living things from nothing to something. Then, may peace be upon to our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW, his family, his companion, and all of his followers. The writer would like to express the sincere gratitude to her advisor, Mrs. Inayatul Chusna, M.Hum for her great patience, time, guidance, kindness, care, and contribution in correcting and helping the writer to finish this thesis. Thanks for all her advices and helps that has been given to the writer. It is such a precious and honor thing to have her as the writer’s guide lecturer. May Allah SWT bless her always. In addition, the writer would like to give appreciation to the following people, namely: 1. Beloved parents, brother, sisters, and grandmother for supporting all of the efforts since the very first beginning. Thank you so much that the writer could not say anything to thank them. 2. Prof. Dr. Sukron Kamil, M.A, the Dean of Faculty of Adab and Humanities. v 3. Drs. Saefudin, M.Pd, the Chairperson of English Letters Department. 4. Elve Oktafiyani, M.Hum, the Secretary of English Letters Department. 5. Elve Oktafiyani, M.Hum and Ida Rosida, M.Hum as the judges of the examination, thank you for correcting this thesis. 6. All of the lecturers of English Letters Department for educating the writer during her study at State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta so that her knowledge can be used in this thesis and her life in the future. 7. Dearest friends in the English Letters Department year 2013, especially for the class of A (Crowsa) and class of Literature for supporting and giving the writer endless advices and caring. For Gina Nurshafarina who kindly shares her ideas, knowledge, and thoughts, thank you so much for your help. For Rainbow After Rain (Danti Yaniar, Lana Prismanisa, Elsya Prawita Oktafiani, Purnama Sari Maharani), thank you for our togetherness, all the sadness, tiredness, laughing, cheerful, and sorrowful days to make this effort worth. 8. Dearest friends of high school, thank you for always pray for the writer to keep fighting for this thesis and for the spirits. 9. Dearest work partners in Bank of Indonesia, SLA DMST and Archive Division, thank you for the spirit, understanding and attention to finish this thesis. May Allah bless them always anywhere anytime. The writer realizes that this thesis if not really perfect. Therefore, the writer welcomes any criticism, suggestion, and advice for a better improvement. And also, vi the writer hopes that this thesis would be useful for all the students of State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta and the readers in general. Jakarta, November 3rd 2017 Widya Atsmara vii TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................ i APPROVEMENT ............................................................................................................. ii LEGALIZATION ............................................................................................................ iii DECLARATION...............................................................................................................iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................ v TABLE OF CONTENT .................................................................................................. viii CHAPTER I ...................................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 1 A. Background of the Study .......................................................................... 1 B. Focus of the Study .................................................................................... 4 C. Research Question .................................................................................... 4 D. Significance of the Research .................................................................... 4 E. The Objective of the Research ................................................................. 5 F. Research Methodology ............................................................................. 5 1. Method of Research ............................................................................................ 5 2. Technique of Data Analysis ................................................................................ 6 3. Instrument of Research ....................................................................................... 7 4. The Unit of Analysis ........................................................................................... 7 viii CHAPTER II ..................................................................................................................... 8 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK .................................................................................. 8 A. Previous Research .................................................................................... 8 B. Theoretical Framework .......................................................................... 11 CHAPTER III ................................................................................................................. 25 RESEARCH FINDINGS ................................................................................................ 25 1. The Analysis Character of Joy ............................................................... 25 2. Joy’s Personality Structure ..................................................................... 32 3. Joy’s Defense Mechanisms .................................................................... 40 CHAPTER IV.................................................................................................................. 56 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION .......................................................................... 56 A. Conclusion .............................................................................................. 56 B. Suggestion .............................................................................................. 57 WORK CITED LIST ...................................................................................................... 59 APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................... 62 ix CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Film and psychology are already linked since early 1900s (Melechi). Thomas Mann and D.H. Lawrence have operated Freudian theories into the plots of their stories and persuaded many people that literature and arts and cinema authorized Freud’s psychological theories,
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