LINGUA LITERA Journal of English Linguistics and Literature BELLA SWAN’S BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AS A RESULT OF THE ABSENCE OF MATERNAL CARE IN STEPHENIE MEYER’S

Mental disorders are common in modern times. It can be seen in the novel Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. It describes that the main character has a psychological problem. As a result of her failed expectations about her mother's figure, she experienced early trauma and disappointment, which culminated in mental changes that led to Borderline Personality Disorder. Two problems are proposed in this research; how does the absence of maternal care trigger mental disorders and the impact of Borderline Personality Disorder suffered by Bella Swan. This research uses the theory of Object Relations by Otto F. Kernberg. Two of Kernberg’s concepts are considered appropriate to be utilized: mother-daughter relationships and the concept of Borderline Personality Disorder. Those concepts help this research to describe how the absence of maternal care trigger mental disorder and the kind of Borderline Personality Disorder suffered by Bella Swan. The result of this research shows two main points. First, the absence of maternal care is the cause of the failure of character-forming and it led to Borderline Personality Disorder. Second, the impact is shown through her being unconfident and split up from the social.


I. Introduction
Absence of Maternal Care is a phenomenon where the mother's role in her child's life is emptied, resulting in mental development problems. This is becoming more common today due to a lack of understanding of human brain growth. Kernberg (1984) said that in the early stages, the infant is thought to have two separate representations of objects; a good mother object to store positively toned effects and a bad mother object used to store negatively-toned effects. According to Kernberg (1985), Borderline personality disorder is the result of the failure of separation between mother and child. From this statement, it can be seen that the condition of people with mental disorders is caused by deep feelings of disappointment and the failure of the integration between mother and child which lead to Borderline Personality Disorder, in which children will feel that they are unconfident and self-distrust that leads them to avoid the social environment.
In this research, the writer applies the Object Relation Theory by Otto F. Disorder and affects her mental development as will be discussed below.

Internalization
Internalization is a process of

Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder appears as triggered by trauma resulting from the failure of the mother and child

III. Research Method
The qualitative method is considered to be an appropriate method for this research. This method does not require participants but requires books as a source of the data. The data collected from the novel for this research will be analyzed using the   The failure of the bonding between Bella and her mother did not make Bella hate the woman who had given birth to her. On the other hand, because she is used to acting like a mother to her own mother, Bella loves her mother very much, so there is a feeling of jealousy that arises when her mother gets married and has a new life. Therefore, her On the other hand, she is just a burden that will interfere with her mother's life with her new husband.

I. IV. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
In short, the loss of a mother figure in a child's life can affect the personality and mindset of the child. For the worse, the mother can be a bad model because her figure cannot meet the expectations of the child and she did not teach good things. Bella should grow up with an abundance of love, attention, direction, and motivation from her parents. but her parents' divorce and her mother's behavior made Bella not get these things, especially the mother figure as a guide and source of information so she did not have the confidence to blend in with people her age. However, Bella's teenage years were spent guarding and directing her mother on the right path so that she became more mature than her age. As a result of her mental maturity, Bella finds it difficult to understand individuals her age. It can be seen through the quotation below:

Impact of The
I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. (Twilight,(10)(11) From the quotation above, it seems Bella seemed to doubt how she saw the world, whether it was normal or not when compared to other people. This is due to the failure of separation and the destruction of Bella's expectations of a mother figure. This is also supported by Klein's opinion

V. CONCLUSION
The results of the study are expected to convey to readers the figure of a mother who has a significant impact on a child's mental development. Bella Swan, an adolescent whose parents divorced when she was a newborn,