Yunara & Kardiansyah TEKNOSASTIK Animus Personality Volume 15 (1), 2017 7 e-mail: teknosastik@teknokrat.ac.id Animus Personality in Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones Yurisa Yulia Yunara 1 , M. Yuseano Kardiansyah 2 yunara.albizar@gmail.com 1 , yuseano@teknokrat.ac.id 2 Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia 1,2 Abstract This research discusses animus personality within some female major characters of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones novel. It is aims to describe the implication of psychological study towards the field of literature. Those female major characters chosen are Arya Stark and Sansa Stark.. The theory applied by the writers in this research is the animus theory developed by Carl Jung. The writers use Carl Jung’s animus stage of development which consists of four stages of development that are The Man of Power, The Man of Action, The Man of Word and The Man of Meaning. The findings of the analysis show that as what Carl Jung believes that animus imprint exists in women’s characters. The difference is only about how far the animus dominated the women itself. Key Words: animus, Game of Thrones, psychological study Introduction Human tends to assume that female and male are different. The differences are indeed because of the opposite sexes biologically. The differences between male and female lead human to put certain standard for certain gender. People see someone’s sex as an important predictor of their abilities, characters, appearances, and interests. Those standards are also known as gender stereotypes. According to Plotnik et al in Wibawa (2009; 18) gender stereotypes are traditional or stereotypic behaviors, attitudes, values, and personality traits that society believes. It means that gender stereotypes dictating what types of behaviors and acts that are generally acceptable and appropriate for male and female based on their actual sex. This definition explains that gender stereotypes are the expectation of society toward how males and females gender roles in social life. The gender differences raise the issues of male and female; masculine and feminine, male associated with masculinity and female with femininity. With each construction, the biological differences between men and women get translated into social terms and descriptions. People tend to call female’s roles as feminine and male’s roles as masculine. Gender roles are divided through behavioral norms. Certain types of behaviors are categorized as masculine or feminine (Scantlebury, 2009), masculine and feminine traits are deeply rooted in society and in literature. Masculine and feminine traits are in direct opposition to each other which means masculine is commonly exist in male’s characteristic and so does the feminine. This phenomenon developed by Carl Gustav Jung in his psychological theory. In his theory, the femininity of male characteristic is called the anima, while the masculinity of female character is called the animus. Jung believes that an individual is inherently bisexual, therefore there always the opposite sex characterization in every individual. From the explanation above the writers decided to analyze the animus personality of the women major character in a novel by George R.R Martin entitled A Song of Ice and fire: A Game of Thrones. The writers were interested to analyze how the animus side of women’s psychology described inside the story that has the spirit of feminism. In accordance, the writers formulated the problem into one problem formulation which is: How is the Animus personality of women major characters described in the novel A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones? while the objective of the research is to reveal Animus personality of those women major characters. Accordingly, psychological theory is often used in analyzing literary work. As Siswantoro stated that: “Psychology of literature is a study of certain psychological phenomenon experienced by the main character in literature when responding or reacting to themselves and their surroundings, thus psychiatric symptoms can be revealed through the behavior of a character in a literary work” (2004:32). Based on that, the writers concluded that in analyzing literary work people can use psychological theory and approach as a framework to analyze the literary work. In this research the writers decided to use Carl Jung Archetypes theory as the main references of this research. Jung’s psychological theory is also known as archetypal the ory. Daniels (2011:5) explains that in terms of Jung, archetype is intended to mean the original, main idea, and certain pattern in determining human