THE ANXIETY OF AGRIN IN BAHMAN GHOBADY’S TURTLES CAN FLY (2005): A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

This study concerns with the movie entitled Turtles Can Fly (2005), which is directed and written by Bahman Ghobady. The analysis of this research paper is focused on how the major character’s anxiety is reflected in the major character Agrin, namely, Bahman Ghobady based on its structural elements and psychoanalytic approach. In analyzing the psychoanalytic approach, the writer applies the theory of psychoanalytic approach by Sigmund Freud. This research belongs to qualitative research, which employs textual data. The textual data are taken from two sources namely the script of the movie itself as primary data sources and other materials which are related to the study as secondary data source. The results of this study are as follows: Firstly, the structural elements of the movie present a unity. It appears in the beginning, middle and at end of the movie. Secondly, the psychoanalytic approach shows that the anxiety can occur when a person has conflicts in her personalit