Passepartout's Defense Mechanism Reflected In Jules Verne's Around The World In Eighty Days

This research discussed the psychological approach on Jean Passepartout as one of the characters in the novel Around the world In Eighty Days. This research aim to desribe the causes of Jean Passepartout undergo defense mechanism. This research uses psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud to analyze the anxiety as the causes of undergo defense mechanism in Jean Passepartout’s character.The reseacher uses the library research method to obtain research data. The primary source of this study is the novel Around The World In Eighty Days,secondary source are books of theory, articles, and journals. Since the study analyzes and categoryzes the data of defense mechanism and anxiety. The result of the study it can be concluded that Passepartout experienced the conflict between ego and super ego known as reality,neurotic, and moral anxiety. He undergo defense mechanism to cover his anxiety with uses six types of defense mechanism. They are rasionalization, displacement, projection, repression, reaction formation, and regression.