逆轉的厄勒克特拉情結——對伍美琴裸體吃中餐中母女關系的探究

1、 暨南大學 暨南大學碩士學位論文 士學位論文 題名（中英對照） ：The Inverted Electra Complex ----On the Mother-daughter Relationship in Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked 逆轉的厄勒克特拉情結 ----對伍美琴《裸體吃中餐》中母女關系的探究 作者姓名：李楚翹（若是同等學力人員請注明“同等學力申請” ，若是港澳臺僑及海外留學生請注明

2、申請人生源地） 指導教師姓名：趙友斌 及學位、職稱：碩士 教授 學科、專業(yè)名稱：英語語言文學 學位類型： （學術學位 學位類型： （學術學位/專業(yè)學位） 專業(yè)學位）學術學位 學術學位 論文提交日期： 2015 年 5 月 4 日 論文答辯日期： 2015 年 5 月 22 日 答辯委員會主席： 劉洊波 論文評閱人： 學位授予單位和日期： I Abst

3、ract Mei Ng, the Chinese American writer, published Eating Chinese Food Naked in 1998. The novel mainly depicts Ruby Lee’s Chinese American family --- the relationship between family members, household trivial matters, a

4、nd Ruby’s personal affairs. After graduating from Columbia University, Ruby moves to her parents’ house in Queens. During the summer, she reevaluates her parents’ relation, her feelings towards her mother and other women

5、, and her on-and-off relation with her boyfriend Nick. It is worth noting that different from other confrontational mother-daughter relationship in previous Chinese American novels, in this novel the protagonist Ruby gra

6、dually develops a kind of lesbian love towards her mother. In this respect, she can be said as the inverted Electra. This paper intends to explore the performance, consequence and causes of Ruby’s inverted Electra Comple

7、x and her gradual coping with it from the perspective of psychological analysis. Her love for her mother and hatred of her father finally lead to her confused sexual identity--- she has a boyfriend while dating other men

8、, but still she has a crush on women. Her confusion is the collective force of the castration of Chinese American Father, her inner-colonization, and the traumatic experiences of the whole family, behind which is the lon