From Fragmentation To Integration

Doris Lessing is a famous British writer, and her novel The Golden Notebook is one of her masterpieces, of which feminism was once the overriding academic topic. But after Lessing won the Nobel Prize in 2007, the research has moved to a broader extent. This thesis attempts to explore Anna Wulf, the heroine of The Golden Notebook from a new perspective with Freudian psychoanalytic theory to further probe into the significance of The Golden Notebook and the common nature of human beings.This thesis starts with an overview of Doris Lessing's life experience and her The Golden Notebook, and the literature review of The Golden Notebook at home and abroad follows. Then a general review of the relevant Freudian theories of personality and interpretation of dreams will be offered, from the perspectives of which the author of the thesis attempts to analyze the protagonist Anna of The Golden Notebook. By presenting the inner world and spiritual life of Anna, this thesis analyzes the process of psychological change and spiritual quest from fragmentation to integration of the main character Anna.Through the interpretation we can draw the conclusion that the women are under great pressure from family, work, male-female relationship and so on. They face high risks of split personality and conflict of mind. In a conclusion, this thesis reveals the lives of modern Western people, especially the confusion of female life, and the mentality of the 1950's British society, through which we can see that the important option to realize the value of the life is the spiritual unity. Only by self-salvation can they achieve the integration of mind and pass through these crises.