On The Characteristics And Contribution Of Zhu Guangqian’s Theory Of Tragic Psychology

Zhu Guangqian, an influential Chinese contemporary aesthetician, literary critic and the founder of Chinese modern aesthetics, had significant impact on the development of the theory of Oriental Aesthetics and tragedy psychology.This article of zhu guangqian tragedy psychology theory in detail elaborates the four main aspects. This article mainly from the "psychological distance" theory,theory of tragedy pleasure, tragedy "purification" theory and the decline of zhu guangqian’s theory of tragedy psychology was discussed. Combined with his study in Europe and the United States, exposing himself to western culture a lot, impacted from the thoughts of literary theorists such as Kant, Schopenhauer, Zhu could fully absorb and draw lessons from the essence of Chinese and western culture, when forming his own theory of tragedy psychology. This is the effect of “moving the flower of western aesthetics to Chinese literary theory wood”. He critically inherited the western literary theory, combined with the traditional Chinese culture, and structured a set of his own theory of tragedy psychology. This can make later researchers inspired in the mode of thinking when studying this theory.