D. The Technique of Data Collection
The data collection was conducted by the researcher through several steps. Initially, the researcher read
Lolita
as the source of the data. The researcher carefully and thoroughly read the work several times to obtain a deep
understanding of the content of the novel. Then, the researcher conducted the data collection by taking some notes of the essential words, phrases, clauses,
sentences, and paragraphs related to the topic of the research. These notes were used and arranged by the researcher as documentation for further analysis. Next,
the data were re-evaluated by the researcher to ensure that there were no mistakes and irrelevant data to be used in conducting analysis process. Categorizing the
data was the final step. The data categorization was essential to answer the objectives of the
research. The researcher employed Freud’s psychosexual and sexual aberrant
inclination approach focused on the development one’s sexual course its aims
and its objects to answer the first research objective i.e. to uncover Humbert Humbert’s sexual aberration which is triggered by his early sexual affair in the
childhood. The second research objective i.e. to analyze the relation between Humbert Humbert’s imbalance personality and sexual aberration which is shown
by his aberrant sexual-pleasure seeking behavior and its manifestation was answered by using Freud’s psychoanalysis theory focused on the system of
personality and sexual pleasure principle. The sexual pleasure principle helps the researcher to distinguished pedophilia as a merely mental disorder and sexual
offense towards children as its criminal manifestation of sexual-pleasure seeking behavior.
The researcher used a data sheet to ease the data categorization during the process of data collection. This data sheet helps the researcher see the progress of
the research. The form of the data sheet is as follows:
Table 1. The Table List of the Data for Humbert Humbert’s Symptomatic
Sexual Aberration Inclination in Vladimir Nabokov’s
Lolita
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Table 2. The Table List of the Data for Humbert Humbert’s Imbalance
Personality and Sexual Aberration which is Shown by His Aberrant Sexual- Pleasure Seeking Behavior and Its Manifestation
in Vladimir Nabokov’s
Lolita
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The third research objective table list is particularly different since it needs
broader references.
Table 3. The Table List of the Data of Humbert Humbert’s Personality which
Resembles Nabokov’s
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