PROGRESSIVE VOL XI. No. 2 September 2016 ISSN: 1979-4975 49 DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER OF MAIN CHARACTER IN SYBIL NOVEL BY FLORA R. S BASED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Rizky Mirani Desi Pratama, SS, M.Pd Bahasa Inggris ABA BSI Jakarta Jl. Salemba Tengah No. 45 Jakarta Pusat drizkymirani@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Sybil novel tells about woman that has sixteen personalities. This novel is very interesting because there is a psychology aspect in this novel. The writer intends to find out the characterization of the sixteen personalities and psychological problems in that novel, in this case, dissociative identity disorder. The writer wants to know about the symptom, the causes, and the treatment of dissociative identity disorder that found in Sybil novel. In finding the analysis of this paper the writer uses descriptive method and library research. The writer found that the author of the novel, Flora, uses both direct and indirect characterization to reveal the characterization of each character in the QRYHO 7KH FKDUDFWHUL]DWLRQ FDQ EH VHHQ IURP WKH FKDUDFWHU¶V ZRUG FKDUDFWHU¶V WKRXJKW DQG WKH DXWKRU¶V QDUUDWLRQ 6\ELO DV WKH PDLQ FKDUDFWHU VXIIHUV IURP GLVVRFLDWLYH LGHQWLW\ GLVRUGHU EHFDXVH she got physical and sexual abuse from his mother and she has no one to share and solve her problems. It forces her to get another solution by making other personalities to share her problems. Suffering dissociative identity disorder makes her losing her time. She does not know what she has done and what she told about until she meet with Dr. Wilbur, the psychiatrist who give her psychotherapy to bend all her personalities. Keywords: Literature, Psychology, Dissociative Identity Disorder I. INTRODUCTION Literature is the study of life, humanity, perspective, social, and culture. An appreciation of literature can be enjoyed by many collections of poems, plays, novels, short stories, etc. Literature may also raise the realities of life in the society as a reality and objectivity. In addition to the reality and objectivity disclosed, literature also gives the literary interpretation of the meaning itself. Objective reality can be found in society in the form of events. Literature is also a means of communication between the authors (with their readers) through the medium of language in expressing ideas and feelings. Literary language has a depth of meaning because it is often used to express a feeling or convey a moral message as well as good values. Literature is also commonly used to capture something that relates to the values that held a nation, such as religious, history, society, and culture of a nation values. Thus, the wealth of literary treasure can be viewed as a mirror of cultural wealth of a nation. A literary work is a result of literature. It reveals about the problems of humanity. It tells about the meaning of life and living. It also describes the human sufferings, struggles, love, hate, lust and all that experienced by humans. With literary work, the authors will show many higher values and more sublime. They also want to interpret the meaning of life and the essence of life. One of the most popular literary works of fiction is novel. Kennedy (1983:180) stated WKDW ‡D QRYHO LV D ERRN-length story in prose, whose author tries to create the sense that, ZKLOH ZH UHDG ZH H[SHULHQFH DFWXDO OLIH· 7KH author of novel tries to present the sense that we can experience the story through reading novel. There are some kinds of novel such as, science novel, historical novel, picaresque novel, horror novel, psychology novel, etc. One of the examples of Psychology novel is Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Sybil novel tells about dissociative identity disorder. It has complex situation which tell how each personalities appear. Flora Rheta Schreiber is an American journalist. Flora has written some book that had the same genre (psychology) because Flora Rheta Schreiber was the psychiatry editor of Science Digest when she first heard about Sybil. She spent seven years writing this book. Although the