The Relation between Literature and Psychology
The feeling of helplessness happens when someone has no one to rely on and to get help when heshe in trouble. The feeling that the world is empty or
meaningless happens when someone loses hisher purpose in life, so heshe feels useless to live in this life. The feeling of being different is when someone is not
similar with others in terms of way of thinking, life purpose, attitude, and habit. The difficulty to approach and speak with others exists when someone has no
eagerness to make such interactions with other person. So, heshe tends to do anything by himherself alone. The refusal to obey rules is when someone has
hisher own ideal of life purpose and unfortunately hisher life purpose is usually against the norms in society. The signs of depression can be found whenever
someone fells depressed with hisher condition at that time. The excessive sleep or insomnia happens when someone is busy with hisher own thought on a
certain matter and heshe thinks about it so deeply like heshe cannot leave that matter for a second. So, heshe always thinks about that matter.
Furthermore, someone suffers from alienation not only because of hisher own will to be in the state of being alienated nor born alienated. As Davis says in
Man in Crisis
, “a person becomes alienated for heshe lacks of love, perceives powerless, and worthless, etc.” 1970: 296. As a result, heshe often looks
hisher self as the third person and heshe will detach hisher self from the society.
An alienated person lives a life alone since heshe is detached from the society. Heshe rarely has any interaction with other person; heshe only thinks
about himherself life purpose. Therefore, it results on hisher unstable emotional
condition. Heshe will be easier to get mad and depression particularly when heshe fails to attempt hisher goal. Then, it may lead into a criminal activity. It is
because the alienated person tends to not obey the rules and norms in the society.