ANXIETY THROUGH ID, EGO, SUPEREGO DEFENSE MECHANISMS THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT MOVIE SCRIPT BY MARK HASLETT

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explain the anxiety factors and how the main characters perform a self-defense mechanism in the movie script The Last House on the Left written by Mark Haslett. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive method, with a psychological approach. The writer obtained the data by reading the script repeatedly, taking notes, and then qualifying the data related to this research. In analyzing the data, the writer used a psychological theory proposed by Sigmund Freud. The results of this study show that the main characters Mari and Justin have 3 factors of anxiety, namely neurotic anxiety such as anxiously, traumatized, terrified, escape, realistic anxiety such as police fugitive, trouble brewing, bullet, gun and fires, and moral anxiety such as disappointed, fear, broken. There were also some defense mechanism that the main characters used to overcome their anxiety was repression, compensation, sublimation, reaction formasi, rationalization, displacement, altruism, and undoing.