Page | 301 MANGO TREE’S DESIRE IN THE STORY OF DENGAR KELUHAN POHON MANGGA: STUDY ON PSYCHOANALYSIS OF LACAN Devi Cintia Kasimbara Universitas PGRI Madiun, Madiun, Indonesia dkasimbara@gmail.com. Abstract Dengar Keluhan Pohon Mangga (DKPM) is the story written by Maria Amin during the Japanese colonial era. The author uses the metaphor of "mango tree" to escape Japanese censorship to be published so that there are many hidden meanings in this short story. This study aimed to determine the author's unconscious condition through the language used by using Lacan's psychoanalytic theory. This study used a qualitative research method with a poststructuralism approach using Lacan's psychoanalysis. The data source of this research is a document, namely the short story DKPM by Maria Amin. The sampling technique used purposive sampling. In this study, the data were obtained through document analysis, and then the data were analyzed according to Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, which begins by describing the life of the author - in this case, is Maria Amin - to understand his work. After that, he explained the characters of the characters in the DKPM short stories. Furthermore, the analysis was focused on the short stories' language, which can be seen through the metaphor and metonymy phenomena in this short story. In this way, it will be seen how the author's subconscious is filled with a sense of lack and loss, so that the desire to cover up the deficiency appears. The results showed that the short story DKPM is a short story that reflects the writer's unconscious condition. It can be seen in the short stories he wrote that the Indonesian nation was expressed metaphorically by using the word "mango tree", the Japanese nation as "areca tree", and the Dutch nation as "the man". In this short story, the mango tree (the Indonesian nation) is on lacks condition. So that there is a desire to gain recognition for its existence as a subject. Keywords: Dengar keluhan pohon mangga; lacan; maria amin; psychoanalysis. 1. INTRODUCTION Human life is driven by desire. Humans, from birth to escape from existential units in the Real-world, always experience a lack, humans are considered to be forever hollow. From birth to escape from existential units in the Real-world, humans still experience a lack, humans are considered forever hollow. A sense of deprivation forever follows like a ghost that haunts human life. Even though nobody can found this existential unity (in "the real" world). The feeling that is languished in this unconscious realm gives birth to an insatiable desire (Manik, 2016). To see the desire in literature can use Lacan's psychoanalytic theory. All human actions result from desire so that the author's actions to produce literary works can be called a manifestation of the author's desire. In Lacan's sense, the author is such a deficient subject. Lacan's theory of the subject is that humans are represented by language, by unique objects called "words". The Lacan technical term for "word" is "signifiant". Whenever a person speaks