On The Distorted Love

Beloved, Jazz and Paradise is considered as a trilogy of Toni Morrison. Jazz, as a second part of the trilogy, is acclaimed as an amazing poetic drama. Since it was published in 1992, it evoked critical response. In the 1990's most of foreign critics explored the jazz music itself as a medium of narration. In recent studies of Jazz Justine Tally investigates jazz not as the music, but as a metaphor for language and storytelling in his The Story of Jazz. In China Jazz has been overlooked for a long time and only a few scholars have discussed it, including Wang Shouren and Mao Xinde. So it is hoped that this thesis can arouse more attention to Jazz in China.This thesis analyzes the aberrant emotions of African Americans under the influence of white racism in a detailed way: the distorted love between man and woman, mother and daughter, and father and son. Psychoanalytic theory of transference, projection and repression is used to interpret the origin of all types of distorted love. Aiming at its origin, the solutions to cure the distorted love are revealed. Mutual understanding, sympathy and union are gained between African Americans in the process of the talking cure and in addition racism is to be eliminated.