| "Dreams" in Thomas mann’s novel The Magic Mountain play vital roles. Freud’s depthpsychology theory has important significance on reading the novel. Freud’s theory about sex andparaphrasing of dreams was on full display in the night dream of the hero in the novel,explaining his stranding for seven years in the mountain. On the surface his staying there wascaused by the suspected tuberculosis, but actually the subconscious sex is the cause. The authorused sex symbols and stream of consciousness technique to summary of Hans sex love throughhis lost in the snow mountain, and at the same time to review the humanism philosophy andsuperman, the two opposing thought in western society, performing the tendency to discard both.Then the author used the absurdity nature of dreams to show the good and evil in human nature.Thomas mann put this kind of cognitive into understanding of the reality and the crisis then.After the First World War Germany hated about the treaty on their national, so the next war wasfelt. From both sides of the human nature of the hero, the author expressed his vision and worry.Freudian "daydreaming" theory was used to watch the author’s experience, and his relatives andfriends and social reality on The Magic Mountain, to spy out the deep subconscious mind of theauthor himself, to see his disclosure of people psychotic before the First World War and theconfusing and the tribulation of mankind’s future before the Second World War. With the dreamsin The Magic Mountain we make a further reading of The Magic Mountain, which can yet beregarded as a kind of new valuable study. |
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