精神家園的缺失與追尋對最藍的眼睛中黑人女性的精神分析

1、華北電力大學(xué)（保定）碩士學(xué)位論文精神家園的缺失與追尋-對《最藍的眼睛》中黑人女性的精神分析姓名：安娜申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：文學(xué)；英語語言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：張莉2011-03Abstract II Abstract Toni Morrison, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is the first African female

2、writer to receive the honor. In her first work The Bluest Eye, she vividly describes the fear and solitude of Pecola. The book reveals the whole process of the black heroine Pecola from her

3、 desire and fantasy to madness. The heroine’ s tragedy is the typical representative of black people’ s loss of spiritual home under the oppression of white culture. This paper puts the theories

4、 of the p sychoanalytic criticism to the practice of analyzing the novel. The psychoanalytic criticism employed in the paper mainly refers to Lacan’ s theories of Mirror Stage, Three Orders and

5、 Law- of- the- Father. By analyzing the causes of Pecola’ s tragedy , this paper probes into the causes of Pecola’ s failure in self- construction in the mirror stage. In addition, by analyzing

6、Claudia’ s pursuit for her spiritual home, this paper explores how to construct the spiritual home. The body of the paper is composed of four parts. The firs part discusses the family’ s influ

7、ence on Pecola’ s loss of spirit. According to Lacan’ s theory of mirror stage, one’ s existence as a whole being is dependent upon the recognition of the Other. Deprived of the love of pare

8、nts, Pecola can’ t find a reliable Other to construct Self at home. She fails to enter Symbolic Order for this reason. The second part discusses the social infuence on Pecola’ s loss of spir

9、it. Nobody is able to gain any sense of selfhood outside relationships with other people. Pecola is isolated from the black community both physically and emotionally, which severely delays her

10、 process of self- formation. The third part discusses the destructive effect of Pecola’ s self- denial. Pecola’ s struggel in the process of self- denial leads to her alienation and split personality.

11、 The fourth part analyzes Claudia’ s success in pursuing spirtitual home, discussing how to construct spiritual home. To find spiritual home, the blacks should maintain their self- recognition an

12、d have the support of Other. Moreover, to claim subjectivity, the black should call for their traditional culture to quest for a new spiritual support. Keywords: Lacan;psychoanalytic;Self;spiritual