EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka) : Culture, Language, and Teaching of English
Vol 9, No 1 (2024): July 2024

Psychosexual fixation and sexual deviance: The impact of parental abandonment in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore

Zuhrul Anam (Universitas Negeri Semarang)
Amara Zulfa Claudia Izzak (Universitas Negeri Semarang)



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01 Aug 2024

Abstract

The development of psychosexual stages in children significantly influences their behavior. There are five stages: oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital. Disruptions or fixations during any stage can impact societal conduct and relationships. In Kafka on the Shore, parental abandonment causes fixation in one of these stages, as seen in the main character, Kafka Tamura. This disrupted bond leads to repressed emotions and unfulfilled desires manifesting as sexual deviance. Therefore, this study aims to describe the development of sexual deviance due to traumatic parental abandonment in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, using a descriptive qualitative method and analyzed through Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. It affirms that neglectful parental figures can significantly impact a child's psychological development.

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EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka) : Culture, Language, and Teaching of English is peer-reviewed journal. Funded in 2016 with registered number ISSN: 2502-5740 (online), provides a forum for the full range of scholarly articles in the field of Culture, Language, and Teaching of English. It is ...