Exploring Anxiety Disorder in 'I Wish You All the Best' by Mason Deaver

Abstract

The aim of this study entitled “Anxiety Disorder in I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver” is to describe the anxiety disorder of the main character in the novel I Wish You All the Best (2019) by Mason Deaver which has been analyzed based on a psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud (1936). Moreover, the data source in this research is the novel I Wish You All the Best (2019) by Mason Deaver. The research method used is a qualitative method that describes the description data and the data collection technique in this research is the documentation technique while the data analysis techniques used are data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. This study found a type of anxiety disorder, namely neurotic anxiety by several symptoms portrayed in the main character and how the main character deals with it.

Keywords: anxiety disorder, novel, psychoanalysis