This kind of anxiety characterizes the nervous person who is always expecting something dreadful to happen. Such of this person is afraid of his own shadow. It
might better say that the person afraid of his own id. What he is actually afraid of is that the id which is constanly exerting pressure upon the ego will seize control of the
ego and reduce it to a state of helplessness. b
Phobia.
Another form of neurotic anxiety is an irrational fear. This is called a phobia. The characteristic feature of a phobia is that the intensity of the fear is out of all
proportion to the actual danger of the object of which the person is afraid. He may be deathly afraid of mice, dark, rubber, high places, water.
c Panic.
These reactions appear suddenly and with no apparent provocation One reads occasionally about someone running berserk and shooting down a lot of people whom
he does not even know and who have not done anything to him. The person cannot explain why he did such a thing. All he knows is that he felt so upset and so tense that
he had to do something before he exploded. 3
Moral anxiety. Moral anxiety, which is experienced as feelings of quilt or shame in the ego, is
aroused by a perception of danger from the conscience. Hall, 1954 : 68. The
conscience as the internalized agent of parental authority threatens to punish the person for doing something or thinking something which transgresses the
perfectionistic aims of the ego-ideal that have been laid down in the personality by the parents. For example about this moral anxiety it is one of the ironies of life that a
virtous person experiences more shame than a unvirtous person does. The reason for this is that merely thinking of doing something bad makes a virtuos person feels
ashamed
CHAPTER III RESEARCH OBJECT AND METHOD
3.1. Research Object
The object of this research was a novel written by Constance Briscoe, which was represent the complex character of the main character „Clare’ and the child abuse.
The writer analyzed the research through the texts on the novel which were reflected the character that Clare has and the abuses that she got from the environment around
her, especially her mother.
3.2. Source of Data
The writer used novel „Ugly’ written by Constance Briscoe as data source in this research and took kind of fragments that reflected to psychology impact suffered by
main character from related events in this novel.
3.2.1. Synopsis
This novel is based on true story of loveless childhood. It storied about Constance Briscoe, known as Clare who became a victim of child abuse done by her lovely
mother. She become an unwanted child because her mother disappointed about the reality that her daughter is not as same as she expect because of her daughter ugly
appearance. Because of feeling unwanted, Clare becomes nervous and she suffers bed-wetting. This condition make the maltreatment suffers by Clare becoming worst
even though her mother tries to cure her nicely at first. Insulting with bad words is the starting point that why Clare feeling unwanted. These cruel words are just the
beginning. Her mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, Clare was so
desperate and even suffers anxiety. She take herself off to Social Services and tries to get take into care. But somehow Clare find that the courage to survive her terrible
start in life. She even dream to be a barrister and tries to erase her bad memories about her life with her mother during her childhood with letting her mother alone
when she achieves her dream.
3.3 Research Method
This paper uses qualitative and descriptive analytic method as its research design because there are a lot of fragment in the novel, which can be analyzed to be acted as
candidate for genuine proof of research question that has reasonable explanation supported by related theory.
Qualitative research is designed to be consistent with the assumptions of a qualitative paradigm. This study is defined as an inquiry process of understanding a
social or human problem, based on building a complex, holistic picture, formed with words, reporting detailed views of informants, and conducted in a natural setting.
Creswell, 1994: 1. In this research, analytic descriptive had an important role to analyze any kind of
fragment from novel “Ugly” to explain the effect of child abuse supported by related theory.
3.3.1 Data Collection
In this research the writer collected the data that was found related closely with the materials. Practically, the writer collected the data that found in the novel related
to the main character and then analyzed it into the characterization and psychoanalytic criticism theory
The procedures of data collection can be described as follows: 1
Reading the whole script of the novel ‘UGLY’. After deciding the data source, the writer read the whole script of the
novel „Ugly’ and tried to find any matched fragment about main
character in this novel.
