Heathcliff's Personality Disorder As Reflected In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Novel (1847): A Psychoanalytic Approach

This study was about personality disorder. This study was proposed to reveal how personality disorder was reflected in Wuthering Heights (1847) novel by Emily Bronte. This thesis was also expected to give the paedagogical implication based on the context of literary study. The aims of this study were to find out the personality of Heathcliff as the main character in the novel, the conditions which became the causes of personality disorder and the negative effects of personality disorder. The object of this study was Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights novel. The research used a psychoanalytic approach. This study employs qualitative research. In the research method, there were two types of data source, namely primary and secondary data. The primary data was about the novel. Then the secondary data were taken from the sources that were related to the primary data such as international journals, articles, website, and some books dealing with this research. The technique of data collection was a library research. The technique of data analysis used descriptive qualitative research. Based on the psychoanalytic analysis, personality disorder of human could be shown from first, Heathcliff as the main character which analyzed has own personality, his personality could be seen into three structures of personality. In Sigmund Freud’s theory, three structure of personality was divided into Id, Ego, and Superego. Heathcliff showed that he had narcissistic personality disorder. It would be proved by some evidence which showing the conditions of narcissistic personality disorder as the sign of symptoms in American Psychiatric Association. And the last analysis was the negative effects of narcissistic personality disorder reflected in Wuthering Heights novel (1847) by Emily Bronte