Emotional Management of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe's Main Character

This study aims to describe and reveal the main character's emotional management in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a Penguin classics novel published London 1994. employs descriptive qualitative technique Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic approach. The research data was derived from novel's narrations portrayal of character. found that psychology employed defensive mechanism regulate all emotions arose. character this work uses suppression, rationalization, reaction construction, regression, anger indifference, imagination. Repression serves as protection narrative. demonstrated he attempted channel his melancholy into thankfulness turn anxiety rational thinking.