Abstract
The topic of this study is Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The objectives of this study are to describe how anxiety and defense mechanism are described in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and to explain how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller as represented in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The object of the study is a novel entitled The Girl on the Train written by Paula Hawkins. This study is descriptive qualitative study by applying Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The data of the study were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting, and inventorying citations from the novel. Further, the data were analyzed based on Freudian psychoanalytic theory by describing anxiety and defense mechanism described in the novel. The data were also analysed by explaining how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller. The results show there are three kinds of anxiety and six kinds of defense mechanism. Moreover, the results prove that those anxieties and defense mechanisms become a means of constructing psychological thriller since they make the characters suffer from psychological problem and become unreliable narrator, create plot twist, and make the novel become thrilling.
 
 Keywords: Psychological thriller; Freudian psychoanalysis; Anxiety; Defense Mechanism.
Highlights
The topic of this study is Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train
Psychological thriller consists of two point of the discussion is the way anxiety and genres of literature, psychological and thriller. defense mechanism experienced by the characters
The data were analyzed based on Freudian psychoanalytic theory by describing anxiety and defense mechanism described in the novel
Summary
Threats by applying defense mechanism are important to be analyzed. the main. In stops to call Tom and harass his family, she (147-148) it can be known that Scott experiences convinces herself that what she has done is a reality anxiety because his id which does not want normal thing She consciously knows that what to lose Megan, his sexual object, is suffered by the she has done is an unacceptable thing, but her id reality that she is missing. In order to which wants to be satisfied forces her ego and reduce his anxiety, Scott applies a defense successfully defeats her superego which has tried mechanism called rationalization by convincing to help her ego solves the conflict. The fourth character who uses rationalization is Tom. Tom’s neurotic anxiety attacks him when Anna and Rachel have realized that he is the person who kills Megan. It is her effort to avoid everything which reminds her of an accident which kills Ben
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