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j. Intellectualization
Intellectualization is the defense mechanism which tries to show cognitive aspect excessively. People use this defense mechanism to cover their weakness.
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5. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a server anxiety disorder that can occur in people who have been exposed traumatic life events. PTSD is the development of
anxiety related symptomps after an event that nearly everyone would view as frightening or dangerous.
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Such events are beyond what most people experience in their daily life and include such stressors as war, concentration camp
experiences, accident, natural disaster, abuse, rape, etc. In some cases where the stress was exceedingly severe, individual may relive the event and behave as
though they are going through it all over again. The major symptomps commonly occur in disorder:
a. The person experiences severe symptomps of anxiety, arousal, and distress after traumatic event.
b. The person relives the trauma recurrently in ―flashback‖, in dreams and
fantasy. c. The person becomes numb to the world and avoids stimuli that serve as
remainders of trauma.
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Iman Setiadi Arif. Op cit., p. 37.
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David Hothersall, Psychology, London: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1987, p. 458
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Ibid. P. 459
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
A. Character Analysis
In this chapter, the writer would like to analyze psychological problem of the main character in Darkly Dreaming Dexter novel. Before explaining about
psychological problem, the writer wants to analyze Dexter‘s character as the main
character in this story due to know further and deeper understanding of the main character in this novel which can be seen from his thought, direct statement,
dialogues, and his interaction with other characters. Then, the writer uses Sigmund Freud‘s theory to explain his personality that can be assumed as a
mental problem that leads him to become a murderer. Dexter Morgan is identified as the protagonist because the author
describes Dexter‘s minds and actions as a central figure of a story larger than any other characters in Darkly Dreaming Dexter novel. It makes the readers can
understand the main character clearly. He works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a forensic blood spatter pattern analyst and described as a man that
was adopted by Miami police officer Harry Morgan and wife Doris Morgan at the age of three due to the murder of his mother. It can be seen from the following
quotation. ― I dont have a family. I mean, as far as I know. Somewhere out there must
be people who carry similar genetic material, I‘m sure. I pity them. But I‘ve never met them. I haven‘t tried, and they haven‘t tried to find me. I
was adopted, raised by Harry and Doris Morgan, Deborah‘s parents. And
considering what I am, they did a wonderful job of raising me, don‘t you think? Lindsay 2004, 15
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