Finding RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

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3. RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

3.1 Finding

The analysis The Land of Five Towers novel is based on five basic concept of humanistic psychological approach.The basic assumption of Humanistic Psychology including five general heading, they are psychological, safety, love and belongingness, self-esteem, and self-actualization. a. Psychological Needs These needs are most basic of all human needs because these needs are the essential to human survival. Feist 1985: 379 notices “the members of these needs are the needs for food, drink, oxygen, exercise, sleep, protection from extreme temperatures and sensory stimulation”. People must satisfy these needs before they move up to the next level. Feist 1985: 379 states that “when people do not have their psychological needs satisfied they live primarily for those needs and their constant motivation is satisfy them”. For example for hungry people they not have other motivations, expect motivation to eat. They do not want to make a fried or gain self-esteem. They think about food all the time. Food is their goal. They assume only food can guarantee their happiness and their life. b. Safety and Security Needs Maslow in Hjelle an d Zielger, 1992: 450 suggested that “safety and security needs are most readily observed in infants and young children because of their relative helplessness and dependences on adults”. Infants and young children are object which readily observed of this needs, because they helplessness and depend on adults. It is known that both children and infants usually film and so on. So, in this case their parents have big role to assure of their safety feeling. c. Love and Belongingness Needs According to Feist, 1985 : 380 “love and belongingness needs include the desire for friendship, the wish for mate and the children, need to belong to a family, a club, a neighborhood, or a notice. It also includes some aspect of human contact both give and receive love”. d. Self-Esteem Needs 6 According to Maslow in Feist, 1985: 380 “there are two levels of esteem needs: the first is reputation which the person’s perception of the prestige, recognition or fame he has achieved in the eyes of other people and the second is self esteem defined as people own feeling at worth and confidence”. e. Self-Actualization Needs Every people have different way to actualize theme selves. Maslow in Hjelle and Zielger, 1992: 454 mentions: musicians must take music, artist must paint, and poet must wri te if they are to be ultimately at peace themselves”. Although people have different potentials and ways in actualizations, their goal is same, they want to show up who are they and what they can do in their life. Feist 1985: 404 states that “when self-actualizations is reached there is wonderful synergy among the biological, social, and spiritual lives of the person”. It means people will teach their balance in life if they can complete five levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

3.2 Discussion