| dc.description.abstract | Judy
Westwater’s
Street
Kid:
One
Child’s
Desperate
Fight
for
Survival
is
a
memoir
novel.
This
novel
tells
about
child
abuses
Westwater
experienced,
such
as
negligence,
and
physical,
emotional
and
sexual
abuse.
Before
she
wrote
the
novel,
there
was
no
one,
who
knew
about
her
childhood
experience.
She
just
repressed
her
emotion on
her own. S
he wrote t
he novel
when h
er friend
urged her
to writ
e her st
ory
down.
Writing
the
novel
is
a
therapy
for
Westwater
because
it
may
flow
out
the
repressed
emotion
that
never
looses
and
is
buried
in
her
unconscious
mind.
Through
writing t
he
novel,
the
unconscious
mind
is
free
to
come
out.
It i
s
like
a
dream.
While
in
the
waking
life
people
cannot
express
everything
they
want,
in
the
dream
the
repressed
feeling
is
free
to
express.
There
is
a
similarity
between
literary
work
and
dream.
Both
of
them
are
expressions
of
unconscious
wishes
or
desires.
Therefore,
Sigmund
Freud’s
psychoanal
y
sis
theor
y
especially
the
theor
y
of
interpretation
of
dream
is
applied
because
the
purpose
of
this
study
is
to
anal
y
ze
Westwater's
creative
process.
There
are
three
steps
of
the
analysis;
first,
identifying
child
abuse
she
experienced,
second
identifying
the
influences
of
child
abuses
on
her
emotion
repressed
in
her
unconscious
mind
and
the
last,
identifying
her
unconscious
mind
which
is
expressed
in
the
novel.
The
result
of
this
research
shows
that
Jud
y
Westwater’s
creative
process
is
influenced
by
her
unconscious
mind
shaped
by
her
experience of child abuses
and her society. | en_US |
