INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY: AUDREY TURNER’S PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN FINDING AUDREY (2015) BY SOPHIE KINSELLA

Abstract

This study analyzes the personality development shown by the character Audrey Turner in Finding Audrey novel, written by Sophie Kinsella in 2015, using individual psychology theory by Alfred Adler.

This study uses descriptive qualitative technique of research to analyze the data. The data collected are from the novel in the form of dialogues, monologues, and prologues. There are some steps to collect the data needed, such as reading the novel, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data.

Through this novel, Finding Audrey published in 2015, this study finds that Audrey Turner’s personality development is in line with the Individual Psychology theory by Alfred Adler. It can be seen when she appears to have inferiority feelings affected by her mental illness that makes her unable to do social interactions. She tries to overcome it by striving for superiority such as going to the public places and her other effort in socializing. In her actions of striving show another quality of Individual Psychology such as creative power appears in her idea and her initiative to take control in her life, her fictional goal is to be able to get better and to socialize again with other people, social interest shown to us in her concern towards her family and people around her. From there we can see her style of life which is socially useful type. Later on, her efforts to strive for superiority results in her superior quality that shows she already achieved her goal and defeated her inferiority feelings such as going to public places, meeting new people and taking off her sunglasses.