Eros and Thanatos in Reality Club's Album What Do You Really Know?

Sesillia, Salsa Ivanka (2024) Eros and Thanatos in Reality Club's Album What Do You Really Know? Sarjana thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

Figurative language often represents the author's desires because it is a form of unconscious expression, where the language used does not convey its literal meaning. Psychoanalytic theory refers to this as eros; the drive for life, and thanatos; the drive for death. The use of eros and thanatos serves as an expression of the author's desires. The research aims to understand how the forms of eros and thanatos manifest as the author's desires, and to identify the types and functions of figurative language. It explores how figurative language represents eros and thanatos in literary works, specifically in the lyrics of Reality Club’s album What Do You Really Know?. This study employs a descriptive qualitative method, an approach that emphasizes descriptive analysis rather than statistical analysis. Data is analyzed through the examination of lyrics and attentive listening to songs, utilizing Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory. The objects of the research are ten songs from the album What Do You Really Know? (2019), including "SSR", "All Along All Things Were Wrong", "Caught in a Trap", "The Rush", "Vita O Morte", "Telenovia", "On My Own, Again", "Alexandra", "A Sorrowful Reunion", and "2112". Based on the analysis, the research uncovers a total of ninety-six types of figurative language in the lyrics of the ten examined songs from the album, categorized by type, including simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, symbolism, paradox, hyperbole, irony, and antithesis along with their functions. Further analysis identifies forms of eros, thanatos, and contradictions between eros and thanatos. The researcher found twenty-eight forms of eros, twenty-four forms of thanatos, and twenty-nine forms of contradiction between eros and thanatos. The lyrics of Reality Club’s album contain eros and thanatos through figurative language that reflects the author's desire.

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