human motivation, personality, and behavior patterns written in literary objects 1971: 31.
From the above quotation, it is understood that deploying psychological approach as an in interpretative tool means applying psychological theories to
analyze a work of literature. The theories help the readers to better understand the characters in a work of literature as to what motivates them to act and behave in
certain ways, or why they possess certain personal characteristic since
psychological theories provide an insight to the character’ s unconscious mind.
The psychological approach is suitable for this study as it focuses on analyz
ing Kemal Basmaci’ s attitude and behavior and the background behind Kemal Basmaci’ s obsessive love.
C. Method of the Study
The type of this study is a library research. As for any other library research, there are two main sources used in the study. The primary source is the
object of this study, a novel titled The Museum of Innocence. The secondary sources are some theory books used to analyzing the problems formulated. The
most important theory books are Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationship by Susan Peabody, Obsessive Love: When It Hurts
Too Much to Let Go by Susan Forward, Overcoming Low Self-esteem by Melanie J. V. Fennel, and Understanding Unseen by M.J. Murphy.
In doing the study, there are eight steps need to be done simultaneously. The first step was reading the novel closely and repeatedly to get a better
understanding about the whole story. The second step was searching for reviews, article, and journal about the novel to get additional insight. The third step was
formulating the problems of the study. The next step was searching for theories for answering the problems of the study, especially the theory of character and
characterization and the theory of obsessive love. After the writer finding the appropriate theory books on character and characterization, in the next step, the
theory was applied to determine the characteristics of Kemal Basmaci. The sixth step was applying the theory of obsessive love in order to show that Kemal
Basmaci’ s attitude and behavior b
eing in line with the symptoms of obsessive
love. The next step was revealing the causes of Kemal Basmaci’ s obsessive love
based on the theory of the cause of obsessive love. Finally, the last step was making a conclusion based on the whole study.
