SCHIZOPHRENIA AS AN AESTHETIC DEVICE OF A LITERARY WORK

This study aims to reveal the aesthetic language of schizophrenia that contains in the literary work. The problem discussed is how the emergence of schizophrenia as a new phenomenon in a literary aesthetic is and the application of schizophrenia in literary works. The theory used is the theory of postmodernism. Based on the results obtained, schizophrenia, which firstly is a psychoanalysis term to refer to a disease characterized by the splitting of personality identity in the human mentality, was apparently used in the language of a literary aesthetic. The term is then used as a language aesthetic tool in literary works. Literary works containing schizophrenia are seen in poetry and prose