CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
This paper discussed the cause of the miss identification in Liam’s sex- typing process on how he becomes a transgender person. Liam is a regular
American teenager who financially independent but does not have a good relationship with his parents. Only to his little sister Regan he shows of who he
really is by calling himself “Luna” while exploring feminine clothes. Liam, who was very stiff when he dresses as a boy and in contrary while he put the girl role,
identifies himself to his mother because he has failed to win the Oedipus complex in his phallic stage. In the stage, when he should meet the mother as the subject of
love, he found that his mother is emotionally being absent. Thus failure that is faced by Liam leads him into state that is called the
womb envy. Where the previous experience when he witnessed the ownership of vagina resulting in mother’s attention shown him that the possession of the
vagina can bring back the lost love from his mother. Later, this womb envy is then broadening the meaning because it then symbolizes the power that the mother has.
Liam then sees that mother is powerful and have characteristic that is desirable to be possessed. Liam starts to identify himself as her mother for these
reasons; the womb envy and the ownership of power. In the mean time, the father has failed to be the figure that characterized as a proper model of sex-typing. He,
as the person who possesses the penis, has lost the function of the penis as the power. Since that now the maternal side who owns the power, Liam then does not
need his male genital any longer. Thus explanation and the discussion of the chapter before have shown us
the causal effect webs of Liam’s personality. The problem that occur in his identification process during the sex typing process not only associated by one
single trait e.g. failure in Oedipus complex, but also trigged by others occurrences which is correlating one another. If we can draw the line of the scene:
Liam’s phallic stage Î Oedipus complex process Î absent mother Î losing the Oedipal battle Î Oedipus complex modified Î yearning for mother’s love Î
Liam’s concept of mother’s love is resulting from castration Î womb envy Î wish of eliminating penis Î start to identifying mother instead of father Î view
of mother as the source of power Î father lost the function of penis, not having the quality to be identified Î Liam transgendertranssexual.
In end of the novel, the story told that Liam decided to leave his parents’ house. He flew to another state for two reasons: to assign the sex changing surgery
and to avoid the father and mother since he knew that they can’t deal with his condition. These are the association of Liam has failed in his Oedipal battle;
therefore he has stuck in that phallic stage because he can’t handle to finish it. He decided to give up to that stage which he believes that he can’t win the mother’s
love. He decided to leave his house to leave his first love object; his mother.
Desperate in winning her love but then admitting he has lost the battle by going out from the house. Despite the fact that he admits that he has lost the oedipal
battle by doing so, Liam is still doing the sex reassignment surgery which also an association of somehow he is still yearning to have the womb which initially the
very essential importance was to win his mother’s love. Thus, these two conditions: leaving house and doing sexual surgery are the implementation of
Liam has stuck or fixed in the phallic stage. To put a closure to the paper it is also mentioned children who have been
abandoned may idealize the absent parent, they may over-identify with the absent parent and develop a set of fantasies about him or her which—although they may
provide temporary comfort—are not be based in reality.
B. Suggestion
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