Research Focus FRANK’S FAILURE IN OVERCOMING IDENTITY CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT TOWARD HER PERSONALITY: A PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS TOWARD BANKS’THE WASP FACTORY.

9 are based on the real world. The characters inside literary works are indeed similar to those people in real life. The character in the literary work also has personality, emotion, behavior and feeling of those real human. Even though psychoanalysis and literature can be related in some way, they are actually different. Literature is a representation of human life in the form of text and language. On the other hand, psychoanalysis is defined as a theory that attempts to understand, describe and predict the human behavior. Although psychoanalysis and literature have different form, it is clear that the focus of both are the same, it is about ‘human being’. One may use psychoanalysis theory to analyze a particular character within a literary work. The works of literature has been and still continue to be, as long as it exists, as one of the common denominators of human life and experience. Through which human being, may recognize themselves and converse with each other. By looking into the elements of a literary work, the character and their actions are the imitations and representations of the real word. The characters also have personality, emotion, behavior and feeling of those real human. Therefore, the use of psychoanalysis as a mean to understand the work of literature is possible. 10

B. Psychosocial Development Theory

Psychosocial is a term derived from the words ‘psychology’ and ‘social’. Psychosocial is coined by a Germany psychologist Erik Erikson 1902-1994. Just like any other psychologist at his time, Erik Erikson’s theory is greatly influenced by the famous physician Sigmund Freud and also the famous social scientist Karl Marx. But unlike Freud, Erikson mainly focuses on the psychological development of an individual based on hisher interaction with the social environment. One of the important points in psychosocial theory is that this theory deals with the developments of ego identity. Ego identity is the conscious sense of self that people develop through social interaction. The sense of ego identity is the accrued confidence that one’s ability to maintain inner sameness and continuity toward society and other people. Erikson, 1980:94 Ego identity is not stagnant; it is changing from time to time. The ego identity is affected by how a certain individual interacts with each others; his experience will be the cornerstone of how his ego identity will develop. In addition to ego identity, there is also a sense of competence that motivates behaviors and actions. The developments of ego identity are known better as Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. Cherry 2008:13 states that psychosocial development theory is centered on what is known as the epigenetic principle, which proposes that people go through a