about baseball and others about horse racing. They had been closest to and several were about the first war. It implies that some of his stories were his own
experience. Besides, he also remembered that writing could make him feel all the emotion that he could express it into a novel and poems. It can be said that he
faced repression. He attempted to avoid his reality painfully namely all of them had gone out of him and he could not find them anymore.
f. Regression
Regression means going back to an old pattern when a person is under severe pressure and his other defense are not working. According to Morris and
Maisto 2003: 407 that, regression occurs when people under stress may revert to childlike behaviour and defenses. Meanwhile, Ruch 1971: 471 notes that
regression is a reaction of defense mechanism when a frustrated individual unconsciously seeks to return to an earlier more secure period of his life. In
regression, the individual flees from the protected realities and responsibilities of the present to the protected existence of his childhood.
It can be said that regression refers to someone who returns in earlier period of life to behave as childhood behaviour, a stage in which problems were solved
for him. It may have been employed because it offers an escape, returning to past condition of love and security. It means that a return to satisfaction on earlier
period of behaviour. Crow 1973: 186 states that, “regression refers to the utilization of behaviour tendencies that brought satisfaction during an earlier
developmental period”. By so doing, regression can occur at any rage.
Regression that was experienced by Roger is the reaction to his failure in recording out his greatest stories. It happened to him when he was in London. He
told her how sad he was finding the stories had all been gone. So he cried as he confessed it to her.
‘You see I hadn’t believed they could be gone. Not everything.’ ‘What did you do?’
‘Nothing very practical. I lay there for a while.’ ‘Did you cry?’
‘No. I was all dried up inside like the dust in the house. Weren’t you ever in despair?’
‘Of course. In London. But I could cry.’ The Strange Country: 740.
The above dialogue was about his desperate feeling. He was desperate by the fact that he failed to record his greatest stories because now they had been
gone. It really hurt Roger’s feeling. He still didn’t believe why all of them could be gone. He had no hope to find them anymore. So he told her that he could really
cry because the loss of his stories. His crying reflected that he did regression. Thus, he returned to an earlier period of his life namely to behave as child
behaviour.
g. Aggression
