ELECTRUM: The English Language and Education Spectrum
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): July 2023

Anxiety of Tengo Kawana in Town Of Cats Short Story by Haruki Murakami 2011

Ahmad Saifudin (Universitas Surakarta)
Widyashanti Anindita (Universitas Surakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Jul 2023

Abstract

The aims of this research are to find out the structural personalities (id, ego, and superego) of Tengo Kawana from psychoanalysis in the Town of Cats short story by Haruki Murakami 2011 and to find out the kinds of anxieties of Tengo Kawana viewed from psychoanalysis appears in the Town of Cats short story by Haruki Murakami 2011. To find the personalities and the anxiety of the major Character on the novel, the researcher used Sigmund Freud Theory. This research is descriptive qualitative by analyzing the novel into description and explanation. The data are collected by taking a note technique. The writer used referential method for analyzing the data by looking for Tengo Kawana’s utterances and narration, making note from the problem, classifying the data based on the structure of personality and anxiety. Analyzing the data is based on structure of personality and anxiety of Tengo Kawana in Town of Cats short story by Haruki Murakami 2011, drawing conclusion. The conclusion of this research shows that there are id, ego, superego and the kinds of anxiety appearing within Town of Cats short story by Haruki Murakami 2011.

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electrum

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Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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ELECTRUM stands for The English Language and Education Spectrum. The journal is a semiannual peer-reviewed publication of the English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Nasional Karangturi Semarang. It is located in Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia. Electrum ...