The Characters’ Schizophrenia as seen in Bulan Nararya Novel

This research is aimed to describe the mental symptoms and disorders as occur on the characters of Bulan Nararya novel. This research uses qualitative descriptive method with literature psychology. Through this approach, the schizophrenia mental disorder as experienced by the characters will be analyzed uses literary psychological approach. The research subject is Bulan Nararya novel. The data is collected using reading, noting, and literature research techniques. The result states that the types of mental disorder symptoms on the characters are seen in two aspects, such as positive and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms inolve two variants, which are haluzination and delusion. The negative symptoms involve four variants, which area affective, aphaty, avolition, and disorganization. The mental disorder which occurs on the characters is schizophrenia. It has different types, which are catatonic, paranoid, and hebephrenia schizophrenia. Keywords—mental disorder, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis, literature psychology.