Loss, Surge And Awakening-an Analysis Of The Feminine Consciousness In The Piano Teacher

As an unusual feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek deeply probes into femaleconsciousness to an unprecedented degree in her master work, The Piano Teacher.The survival environment for Erica leads to the loss of her feminine consciousness.Such a loss is manifested externally by the alienation of her interpersonal relationship andby her alienated character, and is caused on the deep stratum by the oppression ofpatriarchal oppression and anti-oppression from females, through the analysis of whichwe sees into the repression and distortion of female personality by power politics andpatriarchal culture.As a modern female intellectual, Erica starts her way out of self-consciousnessconfusion and tries to search and verify her feminine identity consciousness and roleawareness, so as to express her independent resistance against the male-dominated society.The resistance brings about the inner surge of feminine consciousness.In patriarchal society there are many females like Erica, who fall to the victims ofthe patriarchal culture and meanwhile make the power of threatening the subversion ofthe male-centered social order, and become the rebels in the lust field and strugglersagainst the patriarchal center. Their awakened feminine consciousness severely shocksthe penis-centered culture under the male dominance and refracts the barriers to thesurvival of modern females.