Emotional Management of the Main Character in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

The aim of this research is to describe and to disclose emotional management of the main character in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The research used the descriptive qualitative method with the psychoanalysis approach by Sigmund Freud. The research data were collected from Defoe's novel entitled Robinson Crusoe, published in 1994. The data were taken from the narrations and characterization of the main character in the novel. The results of this research indicated that to manage all the emotions that appeared, the psychology of the main character used the defense mechanism. In this novel, the main character uses repression, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, aggression and apathy, and fantasy. The defense mechanism that dominates the main character in the novel was repression. The main character showed that he tried to suppress the impulses of sadness into gratitude and he tried to divert the fear experienced to a reasonable mind.