The Analysis of Humbert Humbert's Pedophilia in Lolita by the Psychoanalysis Criticism

Pedophilia is one kind of mental disorder that happens in the society that also happened in a novel entitled Lolita. So, the purpose of the study is to uncover the underlying reasons for pedophilia using Psychoanalysis Criticism. As the theory concerns how things happen based on childhood events, the writer found that what happened toward Humbert in"Lolita" as a pedophile was because the death of his lover when he was a teenager that turned out to be traumatic for him. The writer tried to relate and connect Humbert's past traumatic memory on his childhood with what effect it gives in his adulthood