%A NIM. 09150074 KHAIRUL FUAD %T JILLY’S DEFENSE MECHANISM AS SEEN IN PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY’S %X The Singing Stones is a novel which tells about Asche Family. In Asche family, there is a child named Jilly who afraid of strange person. She feels anxious after the tragedy which happens when she and her father, Stephen, look around in his construction. From that condition, she often avoids a person whom will ask about how the tragedy happens. Due to that problem, this novel portrays children personality problem which focus on children’s anxiety. Since she feels anxious, a theory of anxiety which is introduced by Sigmund Freud is used. By using Freud’s theory, it analyzes what Jilly’s anxiety type and Jilly’s defense mechanisms that are used to overcome the anxiety. The method that is used to analyze this data is qualitative research. It focuses on library research. The first step that is used is by reading the novel repeatedly. After the writer gets the data that relates to the topic, the theory of anxiety and defense mechanism is applied. After finding many proofs that supports the analysis, the writer makes a conclusion. The result of the analysis gives the conclusion that Jilly suffers three types of anxiety: neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety, and realistic anxiety. Jilly suffers from neurotic anxiety after she gets bad experience. she becomes afraid of revealing the truth. The moral anxiety is suffered by Jilly because her mother obsession and the realistic anxiety occur because she is anxious about losing her father. Since the anxiety occurs, Jilly uses defense mechanism to cope it. She withdraws from neurotic anxiety by using repression and regression. She overcomes moral anxiety by using denial and projection. In overcoming the realistic anxiety, she uses intellectualization. In the end of story, the factor of the moral and realistic anxiety is disappeared. This is why neurotic anxiety will still influence Jilly’s personality character. %D 2014 %K Keyword: children anxiety, defense mechanism, psychoanalysis. %I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA %L digilib11480