A Disturbing Spiritual World

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are far beyond one kind of interpretation. Researchers and readers from different countries have been exploring those writing's meaning in various ways and providing kinds of valuable points, which offers us precious academic accumulation for improving research and understanding of Anderson's fairy tales."Self-identity", as a human psychological and behavior process, has its richness of spiritual content. This paper tries to take self-identity as an entry perspective and thus reinterpret Andersen's fairy tales from philosophical and psychological standpoints.There are still various methods in self-identity study, while the self-identifying subject, with other related factors, as subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, and etc. should be regarded as an important respect.The paper defines the concepts of identity and self-identity, and reveals the interaction between Andersen, fairy tales and self-identity. It also points out that the self-identity in Andersen's fairy tales should be regarded as the fairytale roles' self-identity instead of Andersen's.The premise of those fairytale roles' self-identity is their becoming subjects and being capable of self-reflection. Andersen's fairy tales occupies a special place in the world's fairytale development and both hesitated the legacy left by folklore fairy tales and reflected the author's personal spiritual world and artistic creativity. Compared with folklore fairy tales, the roles in Andersen's stories paid much more attention to their self-identification and independence, which shows the intense requirement of a clear self-conscience and subjective perfection.The paper points out that, the objective environment influences the subject. The subject's lack of complete perfection and freedom causes the dilemma of self-identity, the breakthrough of which seems unable to solve the problem efficiently. Such a dilemma reveals an underlying nervousness in the spiritual world of Andersen's fairy tales.Following the subjectivity comes the inter-subjectivity, since the subject can only exist in interaction with other subjects instead of singly being. The self-identity of Andersen's fairytale roles are endless...