ANXIETY AND DEFENSE MECHANISM OF WILL HUNTING IN GOOD WILL HUNTING MOVIE

NUR LAELI MASYKUROH, NIM. 12150044 (2017) ANXIETY AND DEFENSE MECHANISM OF WILL HUNTING IN GOOD WILL HUNTING MOVIE. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA.

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Abstract

Movie is a part of literary works. Good Will Hunting movie tells about a man named Will Hunting. He is the main character in the movie. He has three friends in his life. He has low education but he has good knowledge. It is because he likes reading books. He works as an office boy and a crew construction. Will Hunting feels anxious about his life. He is afraid will be disappointed and left by other people. He also feels anxious about jobs. He often losses jobs because his anxiousness. His anxiousness is caused by his childhood experinces. He often gets violence from his father and his friends. This movie depicts a tragedy within human’s life. A portrayal of anxiety and defense mechanism are revealed through the main character in this movie. Will Hunting character strengthens the idea of Sigmund Freud’s anxiety and defense mechanism, revealed in this work. The method used is a qualitative research, especially library research. Firstly, the writer watches Good Will Hunting movie as the main data in this research in order to find the main problem. Secondly, the writer selects the data that relate to the topic. Next, the writer applies psychonalysis theory especially theory of anxiety, which relate to the idea of the anxiety and the defense mechanism proposed by Sigmund Freud. The writer also applies cynematography theory by Amy Villarejo to analyze the scene picture in the movie. Finally, the writer draws conclusions. The analysis of data leads to the conclusion that through this story, Will Hunting has three kinds of anxiety; realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety, and moral anxiety. Will Hunting suffers from the realistic anxiety because of Sean and the difficult situation around him. He also gets the neurotic anxiety because of his imagination that something dreadful will happen to him. Therefore, he also suffers moral anxiety because he breaks a moral value.Will Hunting tries to deal with his anxieties by doing some defense mechanisms. Will Hunting uses three defense mechanisms, they are; denial, rationalization, and displacement. In denial, Will tries to reduce his anxiety with refusing to recognize his love feeling to Sklar. In rationalization, he reduces his anxiety by lying to his friends about the truth. Last, he uses displacement as the defense mechanism by getting a drink.

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