Searching For The Lost Love Of Parents

Fairy tales accompanied the development of human beings and the development of every one of us. Both the folk fairy tales and the literary fairy tales are the crystal of the fantasies of human beings. Through analyze these fantasies, we can understand the mental structure and manipulation of human beings and of the people who write fairy tales. H. C. Anderson is the most famous "master of fairy tales". He used his abundant imagination, poetic language and childlike words to open a new era of children's literature. Chinese literature, especially the children's literature, was strongly influenced by Anderson. But this influence was ignored. Through literature induction, comparative analytical method, case study and psychoanalysis criticism, the writer tries to investigate the whole life of Anderson, understand his fairy tales, and analyze his mental motive of writing these fairy tales through the angle of psychoanalyse.The second part of this thesis analyzes the familial history of Anderson, points out that several members of this family loved to fancy very much, who deeply influenced the whole life of Anderson. Especially "the fairy tale of the family", which was handed on from grandmother and father to Anderson, was one of the factors which unconsciously impulsed Anderson to study, to write and to become famous. In addition, this part analyzes the whole life of Anderson, the 3 phases and the features of his fairy tales.The third part analyzes the relationship between Anderson and his several fathers. Firstly detailed analyzes the influence of the biological father, indicates the familial desire, a desire of becoming famous and "returning to the rank and fashion". The grandmother passed on a fairy tale of birth, and the father gave a way to carry out this fairy tale: to write and to become famous. Secondly analyzes how the stepfather deprived the mother love from Anderson, and how this deprivation affected the mental of Anderson. Thirdly analyzes the psychological struggle of Anderson: to inherit the familial desire or to obey the request of the "rebirth father"? At last, Anderson chose to inherit the familial desire, and he hoped to gain the other fathers' praises via the success which he acquired in literary production.The fourth part analyzes the love history of Anderson, indicates that his love followed the same pattern: he took his mother as the prototype to choose his love object-a woman who was already "taken", he would be rejected and abandoned by this woman, and finally he ran away from her. Then chooses 3 of his most representative fairy tales to analyze, indicates that the fairy tales were the replay of the writer's life experience, and Anderson gained some compensate of the lost love through the protagonists of his fairy tales.Finally a conclusion is drawned: the writing of Anderson, was the search for his lost parents' love; through writing fairy tales, he found a way to compensate the parents' love which he once owned and then lost.