FREEDOM WRITERS MOVIE BY RICHARD LAGRAVENESE ANALYSIS BASED ON SIGMUND FREUD’S PSYCHOANALYSIS CRITICISM

Abstract

This research is aimed to find the ultimate way to be a teacher to teach students by understanding their psychology. Then, the teachers act to set the condition of the class to make all students change their way of thinking about racism and increase their academicals score. In this paper, the writers use the theory of Sigmund Freud which is implemented during the analysis process, such as: repression, projection, displacement, sublimation and rationalization. The analysis is done by using descriptive qualitative analysis method. The data for this analysis are taken from events and dialogues found in the movie. First of all the writers watch the movie “Freedom Writers” to understand about the story and read the Sigmund Freud theory of many defense mechanism. The data analysis is done through descriptive qualitative method. The analysis shows that the ultimate way to be a teacher to teach students are to understand their emotional status and solve the problem by setting the classroom condition to make students experiencing certain defense mechanism which revealed by Freud to solve the problems found in the movie.