The Writing Psychology Of Kenneth Pai

Kenneth Pai is a writer who have memorable characters in Chinesecontemporary literary world. His literary works were paid more attentionof the literary circles, because of the deep connotation and subtle artforms. He is praised as a prodigy of the short story writers incontemporary era. As one of the wrters, which were early introduced toChinese mainland, he is always the main emphasis of the scholars inmainland China, when they study the Taiwan literature. Since1979, theresearch of his life or his literary works were never discontinued. Butthere were seldom reseachers about his writing psychology in thesetheoretical achievements we have got till now. Although some papersmay mention his writing psychology, but they always skim over it ordownplay it. As far as I am concerned, it is necessary for us to study hiswriting in the perspectives of writing psychology. Just as Jung said, Theperson’s psychology is the matrix of the science and art. On the one hand, we long to use the psychological research to explain the production of theart works. On the other hand, we were eager to reveal the reason why thepeople have artistic creativity. It is no exaggeration to say that the writingpsychology decides the art works. This article is tring to analyse theKenneth Pai’s writing from the perspective of psychology.This article from three angles including theory, reality and works, andthrough the narrative text, opinions on literature, literary criticism,interview etc. to probe Kenneth Pai’s spiritual world, and uncover it’sdiversity and complexity. So we could catch the intrinsic nature of thewriter. This paper is divided to into seven parts:Part one: Introduction. Summarize the research status,significanceand the background. Introduce the research design,methods and theinnovation points of this paper.Part two: Summarize the features and the main content of KennethPai’s writing psychology, and reveal the evolvement of his writingpsychology. Because of Kenneth Pai’s dual personality, restraining andenthusiastic, his writing psychology presents deep and rebel two status.Under the special situation, his novel presents the awareness of sadness, but not pessimism. According to his writing career, Kenneth Pai’s writingpsychology includes disconsolation, panic and salvation. Kenneth Pai’swriting psychology is not steady, it will constantly changing as hisideology growing, so he has different attitude in different writing stage.Part three: State the first content of his writing psychology.Disconsolation is his original impression, and penetrate all his writing life.In this part, I will explain his disconsolation in life predicament,homesick, and homosexual tendency.Part four: State the second content of his writing psychology. The panicmainly exists in his attitude towards the culture. It contains his identitycrisis when he go abroad and reflections about the traditional culture.Part five: Analyze his salvation, the third writing psychology. Itreflects his rebel personality. From the salvation of the existencepredicament, the salvation of the traditional culture and the salvation ofthe gay, we resolve the origin and the significance of the awareness aboutthe salvation.Part six: Discuss the final directing of Kenneth Pai’s writing psychology. The world of affection and beauty is Kenneth Pai’s pursue inhis life. This part mainly to discuss the influence and significance of hiswriting psychology.Part seven: Conclusion. In this part, we will talking about thelimitations or shortcomings of his writing psychology.