Faulkner Novels Of Psychological Aesthetics Research

This dissertation, based on social psychology, literature psychology, and depth psychology, and combined with aesthetics of psychology, literature humanics, focuses on explaining the causes of the creation of William Faulkner's fiction, its implied meaning and its inner mechanism in the sense of psychology, on discussing the mode of creation in the sense of aesthetics and on opening out the secret of his highly successful creation, so that a new point of view can be adopted to better understand Faulkner and his fiction.Starting with the developments of the author's creation, the dissertation follows up the scent of the occurring of his novels and the'track of his psychology of creation, holding the opinion that there exists an intuitive psychological tendency in Faulkner's creation which the author is not aware of. It is the autonomous complex that leads the author to go beyond his limitations and to reflect a deeper collective unconsciousness.Faulkner's novels and their respective themes are closely connected with the inferiority complex caused by American culture, the author's physique and his living conditions. They are the results of his inferiority complex that accumulates into some kind of superiority complex.Because of the southern American's special history and politics and his sufferings Faulkner is deeply absorbed in the southern wasteland and invented Yoknapatawpha County, making it a place where he can do whatever he wants to do to counteract the lack in his real life. He concerns himself not only in the description of the Southern spiritual wasteland, but also in mining the aesthetic meaning of the wasteland, both to him and to the human beings.The three complexes mentioned above are the main factors leading to Faulkner's creation. Just on account of these psychological reasons, Faulkner shows a strong tendency of clear paradigm in his creation. His heroes are mostly in the process ofbecoming adults, while his heroines feature destruction and degeneration. This has something to do with Faulkner's autonomous complex and inferiority complex and also, with his typical masculine discourse as a southern American man. The suffering paradigm of human beings in his novels is he result of his wasteland complex and his innermost consciousness of hardship.As for Faulkner's particular mechanism when he wove his novels, we should owe it to the author's autonomous complex, his natural endowment, his family'sinfluence upon him and his deep unconsciousness as an individual.It is, to a rather large extent, in virtue of the author's peculiar consciousness of time and space that Faulkner employs the technique of stream of consciousness and uses at will the conversion of time to space and sometimes space to time. And it is due to his consciousness of myth that his novels deeply move the readers and awake their unconsciousness. With the popular consciousness which is obviously different from other novelists added up to the above two kinds of consciousness, Faulkner's novels eventually cast off the yoke of traditional literature, get out of the ivory tower, and thus reach the summit of 20th novel creations.