Violence and Abnormal Sexual Behavior in Titisan Iblis by Abdullah Harahap

Keywords

Abdullah Harahap, abnormal sexuality, das Unheimliche, Titisan Iblis, violence

Abstract

This research examines Titisan Iblis (1989), a novel written by an Indonesian writer Abdullah Harahap, using Sigmund Freud’s concept of das Unheimliche (the uncanny). This research aims to reveal how violence and abnormal sexual behaviors depicted in a literary work can be used as the manifestation of the chaos within the public order using the concept of das Unheimliche. Violence and abnormal sexual behaviors occur because of the absence of the authority’s supervision. The violence conducted in the public is inevitably related to the violence happened within the private one. Additionally, a horror story can also show how it is used to confront anomaly, anxiety, and fear which is different compared to the everyday life. Fear and anxiety are impossible to be expressed in the real world, but they can be manifested through a literary work. In this context, the distrust towards the formal and informal authority is shown through the process of problem-solving in which does not involve any state apparatus as well as “orang pintar” (shaman).

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fitria Sis Nariswari
AU  - M. Yoesoef
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Violence and Abnormal Sexual Behavior in Titisan Iblis by Abdullah Harahap
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 91
EP  - 97
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906072
ID  - Nariswari2018/11
ER  -