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The Chinalization Of Psychoanalytic Criticism Since The New Period Literature Criticism

Posted on:2008-05-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J WeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215956652Subject:Literature and art
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Psychoanalytic theory into China has had tremendous influence on Chinese literature. Such effects can obviously be seen in the New Culture Movement in the 1920s and in the new era of the 1980s literary renaissance. Especially the 1980s, psychoanalytic criticism became an important way in China's literary criticism, producing a large number of excellent psychoanalytic criticism essays. At the same time, we also found that the spirit of these essays is different from the Western version of psychoanalysis. In the use of psychoanalytic theory and concept, it adds more content, expressing China nativist tendencies. The purpose of writing this paper is to discover the great influence psychoanalytic theory has had on the practice of literary criticism since the new period of China's and the process of acceptance and Chinalization of literature criticism, which is based on sorting and analysis more than 100 articles from more than 10 journals since 1985.This article mainly includes four parts: Part I: General introduction of Freud's psychoanalysis and its influence on Chinese literature criticism. It describes Freud's psychoanalysis' influence on the Western literary theories in all aspects, as well as on Chinese literature—especially on Chinese literature criticism since the 1920s .And according to its development, I divide it into three phases: 1st stage: the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the climax of psychoanalytic criticism; 2nd stage: early to mid-1990s, the silent period of psychoanalytic criticism;The third stage: since the late 1990s, another climax of psychoanalytic criticism. Meanwhile, a general description of the characteristics of essays invidious stages.Part II: A specific interpretation of the essays on psychoanalytic criticism since the new era; Analysis of the use in these essays of several concepts of psychoanalysis—unconscious and personality structure, Oedipus Complex and childhood experiences, sexual instinct. And from the Chinese cultural traditions, customs, way of thinking and the new era literature we find the cause of the difference between the western and Chinese psychoanalytic criticism and the formation process of characteristics. Chinese and Westerners do have different unconscious structure, and thus have a different language of the unconscious, which can never be generalized by Oedipus complex, sexual instincts, it contains more social in nature, Even if China's literary criticism favored a "sexual instinct" theory, it is used as a breakthrough, to awaken human nature, human sound, thus healing the society. Part III: From the features of psychoanalytic criticism since the mid-1990s—feminist criticism closely linked - from female creative features, women's historical and cultural breaking through the male discourse powers we can find out the reason why it is favored by females. The psychoanalytic criticism mixes feminism, which also demonstrates the broad mind of psychoanalytic criticism in the new era.Conclusion of the text: such strong vitality of psychoanalytic criticism n China is precisely because it combines the reality of China. Chinalization of psychoanalytic criticism is a way to reconstruct China's discourse criticism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Psychoanalysis, New period literary criticism, Chinalization
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