traumatic for Claudia as a part of her surroundings and that become a trouble for her. The decision itself also influenced the development of her personality.
She identified the character of her mother to herself. Her decision for not having a child made her seemed so selfish.
Therefore, the writer interested to analyze neuroses symptoms which are injured by Claudia’s character related with her trauma in the childhood by
using Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis Theory on Neuroses. Freud believed that “a child was a human’s father”; people’s mental explorations were always
related with their childhood and also their past experience which has the implication of psychological problems, especially Neuroses. Neuroses are one
kind of psychological problems which is caused by a great anxiety and traumatic during the childhood.
B. Focus of the Study
The research will be concentrated on how the childhood influences Claudia’s perspective on not having a child. In this case, the writer
emphasizes to the neuroses symptoms of Claudia, using Psychoanalysis Theory by Sigmund Freud, which comes from as the psychological problem
due to her traumatic in the childhood in order to limit the scope of the problem.
C. Research Questions
According to the focus of the research, there is a question that would be interested to be discussed:
How does Claudia’s childhood influence her perspective on not having a child viewed from Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis Theory on Neuroses?
D. Objectives of the Study
Based on the research question above, the objective of this research is: To explain the great role of childhood which is influenced Claudia’s
perspective on not having a child in her life viewed from Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis Theory on Neuroses.
E. Significance of the Study
Through the research, hopefully, readers can understand that family is the basic institution that really important in our stages of life. Moreover, the
concept of family values, which has been taught since a childhood, would determine someone’s personality and behavior in the future. In this case, the
writer emphasizes all of her concern to this novel from the psychological problems, as the result of malfunctioned of the family values, through the
main character inside. Moreover, it can open our mind for knowing our psychological sides to be a better personality in the future.
F. Research Methodology
The research methodology comprises by many aspects such as method of research, technique of data analysis, instruments of research and analysis unit.
1. Method of Research The writer conducts the research by using qualitative-descriptive and
content analysis method. In qualitative research, she used verbal data and the relevant theory; that is the analysis will be explained by the word
Neuroses. The type of qualitative study that she chooses is content analysis with the description of the main problem in the story. Content
analysis is the study that tries to understand the message of the literary work; in this case that the novel Baby Proof.
2. Technique of Data Analysis In this research, the writer uses Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis
Theory on Neuroses based on critical study and sharp analysis to the qualitative data that is collected from the variety of sources based on the
study of historical literature that is used internal and external structure of literary work.
3. Instrument of Research The research instrument of this qualitative research is the writer
herself who analyzed the novel carefully and accurately by checking, quoting, and analyzing some important quotation from the novel and
related with the relevant theory that she has been used that is Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis Theory on Neuroses.
4. Analysis Unit Analysis unit that is used in this research is the novel Baby Proof
written by Emily Giffin printed in 2006 by St. Martin Paperbacks, Inc. United States of America. This novel consists of 306 pages.
5. Place and Time The research started on the seventh semester of academic year 2007-
2008, at the Department of English Letters, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. The research was also conducted at Adab and
Humanity Faculty’s library, main library of UIN, University of Indonesia’s library, and other libraries which can give references
information about that material that the writer needed.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
