The Research Of Tang Dynasty Ghost Literature

As a result of puzzle and reverence to the death, the sense of demonolatry has beenthroughout the long years of human development and become a spirit product ofcollective unconsciousness. The ghost literature is the derivative product of it.The ghost literature, which roots in the death motif in the literature and the ancientwitch culture, is shown by the aesthetic way of literary defamiliarization. According tothe existing material, Wei and Jin Dynasties, the beginning of ancient ghost literature,when the thought of reverence to the soul is all the fashion that caused the rapiddevelopment of ghost literature. In the Tang Dynasty，It inherited the Wei and Jin’s style-imaginative, mysterious and beautiful-and the poetry is more typical than the ghostnovels. The poem of Li He, the representative of Tang Dynasty, is famous of its weirdand gloomy. The novel has different style to the poetry that shows the sigh for home andtime flies in the content expression, even some of them are the love theme poems. Whileit also unique for the ghost humanization and express their emotion though the ghost.This article analyzes the motivation of the ghost literature in the method of psychologyand the traditional ancient literary criticism. The reasons are collective unconsciousnessin the distant past, the psychoanalytic compensation of the writer and the death instinct inliterary creation.It also talks about the writer’s thanatopsis from the times and works.